Schott Applied Power, the Waltham, Massachusetts, US, division of Schott Glas has awarded a CAD 88,000 contract to Newmerical Technologies International (NTI) of Montreal, Canada, as Phase I of a stud…
Schott Applied Power, the Waltham, Massachusetts, US, division of Schott Glas has awarded a CAD 88,000 contract to Newmerical Technologies International (NTI) of Montreal, Canada, as Phase I of a study of wind effects on photovoltaic (solar power) panels on building roofs. NTI“s FENSAP-Airwake simulation code is considered the most advanced in this field and the equivalent of a virtual wind tunnel. Already, CAE, Inc. has developed a CFD-based simulator for helicopter landing on Navy ships and oil platforms, in collaboration with NTI, while Public Works Canada has awarded NTI a contract to study, via CFD simulation, wind and snow effects for a government complex to be built on Tunney“s Pasture in Ottawa. The Schott contract is a further indication that computational flow simulation is a growing and more flexible alternative to expensive and limited capability environmental tunnel techniques.