Exterior CFD Case Studies: Mission-Critical Facilities

This series presents screening-level exterior CFD analyses of mission-critical facilities across the United States, conducted by Resolved Analytics using public-source inputs and a standardized methodology built on Siemens STAR-CCM+. Each case study examines a specific facility's rooftop or ground-level heat-rejection configuration under worst-case wind and ambient conditions, with findings shared directly with engineers of record on request.

The cohort now spans eight facilities across New Jersey, Virginia, Texas, California, Illinois, and Florida, covering rooftop air-cooled chillers, waterless dry coolers, ground-level chilled water plants, and campus-scale multi-building arrangements. The most consistent finding across the cohort is straightforward: generator exhaust impingement on heat-rejection equipment is common, it is identifiable early, and the cost of addressing it scales dramatically with where in a project's timeline it gets found.

Resolved Analytics works with data center owners and developers as an independent exterior thermal risk partner. If you are in the early design or pre-construction phase on a mission-critical facility and want to understand your exterior thermal exposure before the layout is locked, start with the case study that most closely matches your facility type and then book a call.