SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation: Making External Air Flow Studies on the Eiffel Tower a Breeze
Summary
As the world and especially Paris gets ready for the 2024 Olympic Games, there is a monument that everyone in attendance will surely see, the historic Eiffel Tower. In celebration of the games and the host country, we will be using SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation to analyze the airflow around the tower while it is adorned with the Olympic Rings. If your model has complex geometry with many small features, thin walls, or narrow channels, we will use a geometry-based meshing approach. While we could use the manual mesh controls to get better detail around the channels and solid features, it would not capture the wakes developing behind the tower where there is no geometry. As you can can see the mesh is much denser and is refined in a more organic manner due to being based on wakes that are developing around the tower.