International Science Community Association Research Journal of Engineering Sciences 2278 - 9472 6 3 2017 03 26 Application of CFD software for planning and design of civil engineering structures 48 51 EN Devi M. Karthiga 1 PG Scholar in Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India Bharathi E. Mano 2 PG Scholar in Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India R. Geethamani 3 Faculty of Environmental Engineering, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, India S. Abinaya 4 PG Scholar in Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India Jyoti Ghoshna 1 Department of Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Raipur (CG), India Keshav Amit 2 Department of Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Raipur (CG), India Kumar J. Anand 3 Department of Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Raipur (CG), India Weikey Yogita 1 Mechanical Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology, Raipur, 492010, C.G, India Sinha Shobha Lata 2 Mechanical Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology, Raipur, 492010, C.G, India Dewangan Satish Kumar 3 Mechanical Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology, Raipur, 492010, C.G, India Bharosh Kumar Yadav 1 School of Aeronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Shaanxi Province, Xi’an City, P.R. China Nalamwar Mahesh R. 1 Civil Engineering Department, Jagdambha College of Engg. & Tech., Yavatmal, India Parbat Dhananjay K. 2 Civil Engineering Department, Govt. Polytechnic, Nagpur, India Singh D.P. 3 Civil Engineering Department, KDK College of Engineering, Nagpur, India > Review Paper 2016 11 30 2017 03 26 Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) was used widely by every field of engineering for solving critical problems. Paper discussed the application of CFD software for planning and design of civil engineering structures. In civil engineering, CFD can be used for study of liquid flow in environmental structures, sloshing effect of liquid in tanks, Natural ventilation, Force ventilation, Thermal comfort study, stack effect, planning of building in town and contaminant migration in hospital. With proper planning of windows location, windows size and ventilators, natural flow of air can be maintained in residential and hospital building. CFD simulation result are very sensitive to the large number of modeling parameters set by the user. CFD Parameters like Size of computational domain, grid resolution, boundary layer property, turbulence model selected for output and convergence criteria implemented in software are responsible for proper simulation output. Application of Autodesk CFD simulation was demonstrated for wind simulation in building under fixed location, fixed size of windows with uniform wind velocity. Copyright@ International Science Community Association