Interactive Wind Simulation in Settlement Areas

Michael Burch, Raphael Brunold, Ralf-Peter Mundani

2025

Abstract

We investigate the research problem of simulating interactive wind flows in settlement areas containing buildings of arbitrary shapes. To reach this goal we generate two-dimensional wind flow simulations based on geographic data from areas in Switzerland. In modern cities it is crucial to explore wind flows that might have effects on the fresh air circulation, urban heat islands, or transport and flow directions of polluted or contaminated air. In our work, we create a pipeline to define and implement the steps and techniques to generate a wind flow simulation with which we can monitor the flow around buildings while also allowing user interactions during and after the wind flow computation. To achieve our results we focus on data accessed from public geographic information systems (GIS) in Switzerland that are available in different geo-spatial granularities. The visualizations can combine several wind flow metrics like wind directions, wind intensities and velocities, as well as air pressure, either in separate visual depictions or as overlays in geographic maps. Finally, we discuss limitations and scalability issues and provide an outlook based on future directions.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Burch M., Brunold R. and Mundani R. (2025). Interactive Wind Simulation in Settlement Areas. In Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP; ISBN 978-989-758-728-3, SciTePress, pages 823-830. DOI: 10.5220/0013107600003912

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ivapp25,
author={Michael Burch and Raphael Brunold and Ralf-Peter Mundani},
title={Interactive Wind Simulation in Settlement Areas},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP},
year={2025},
pages={823-830},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013107600003912},
isbn={978-989-758-728-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP
TI - Interactive Wind Simulation in Settlement Areas
SN - 978-989-758-728-3
AU - Burch M.
AU - Brunold R.
AU - Mundani R.
PY - 2025
SP - 823
EP - 830
DO - 10.5220/0013107600003912
PB - SciTePress