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Hi Kyle,

I succeeded in finding the required wind information in .epw files.
I think you might take a look in those too. They just might have an info on your issue too, although I am not definitively sure.

Sorry if I couldn't help you.

I am looking for a weather file for any city in the world which has an annual data - data on everyday's (or a couple of times per that everyday) wind speed and wind direction?

Do weather files like those actually exist?
Thank you.

No problem Liam.

As long as you need it. You were very patient with me, I think except the gratitude, I owe you the patience also.

Take your time.

Liam may I dare to ask you something more about the steps 6, 7 and 8. To be precise, I do not understand them.

I went trough the previous 6 steps with no problem (I guess).

I took the annual wind data for the city:

http://www.dodaj.rs/f/1a/Ai/TMN9q4t/vetar.jpg

Run 8 steady state CFD analysis ...

Thank you for the reply Liam.
I am a student of architecture, so there is no client.
The purpose of all this was to create an object on the city plaza. The project ended last year, but I still want to learn how to determine if the Lawson's criteria for pedestrian comfort has been met.

So by doing ...

Thank you for the answer, Liam.

I am so ashamed I did not tell you, I do not use the VE for the CFD analysis. Sorry once again.
I already completed the CFD analysis, but in Solid Works.

Here is the way I did it, and I am asking you if this is the correct way:

1. From the website of the local ...

Liam, if I understood it correctly, the pedestrian comfort can be "measured" (bad word maybe) by applying the "Lawson’s Comfort Assessment Criteria".

Now "Lawson’s Comfort Assessment Criteria" gives 4 wind speeds categories, which must not be exceeded, depending on the pedestrian activity ...

I see.

This is what I meant by "2d plot" (just instead of "Velocity" I want to get "Amplification factor"):

http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/2648/95712177.th.jpg

Then MicroFlo is not what I need. Because I can get the amplification factor for certain points in a excel table from Solidworks. I ...

Now I am confused Liam.

I though I can get the results (velocity) for certain number of points in MicroFlo.
Do this for both cases - with and without the new building. Then export the data into 2 excel files. Then by dividing the values of velocities from these two excel files I would get ...

Liam.
To be quite honest I did not understand you the way I could calculate the velocity in those 10 points.

But I can calculate it in Solidworks, and then export both excel files, edit them into single one (to get the amplification factors) and then import it into MicroFlo to get the plot from ...