July 1996 - June 2000
Principal investigator: Qingyan Chen
Research Assistant: Charles Broderick, III
Sponsor: National Science Foundation and the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
The program interface
Simple computer programs are being developed for the architectural and engineering students to design building environment. Currently, the development focuses on the modeling of thermal comfort and air quality in and around buildings. The program can be run in Window 98 and NT personal computers with a graphical interface for data pre- and post- processing. The interface can serve different computational fluid dynamics codes.