1 1 Boqueria Project data Title: Estudi aerodinàmic i tèrmic de les reformes del Mercat de Sant Josep - La Boqueria (Barcelona) Company: Institut Municipal de Mercats de Barcelona Period: 01/12/2001 - 31/07/2002 Collaborators: Arnau Folch

2 2 Objectives Understand and quantify current comfort problems through calculation of the wind chill factor Prediction of most conflicting zones Validate the architectural design

3 3 Key numerical ingredients Stabilized FEM for incompressible flows Thermal coupling (Boussinesq model) Post-process to compute the chill factor

4 4 Results I

5 5 Results II

6 6 Results III

7 7 Results IV

8 8 Results V Chill factor