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A case Study on influencing factors of architectural numerical wind tunnel HOU Aiboa,*, ZHOU Xiyuana,b, GE Nan b a Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Structural Retrofit , Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100022 b Institute of Earthquake Engineering, China Academy of Building Research, Beijing,100013 Abstract At present in the process of using architectural numerical wind tunnel to solve wind load distribution on buildings, the popularization and application of the architectural numerical wind tunnel in architectural wind engineering is limited due to the uncertainties associated to the influencing degree of various hypotheses and parameter option on the calculated results. In this paper, using the commercial CFD package FLUENT6.1.22, some calculated results from Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) numerical simulation in difference conditions are compared with that of prototype experiment and wind tunnel experiment for a cubic building model, and the influences of different factors on the simulation results with the architectural numerical wind tunnel are analyzed. It is found out that the size of the computational domain should be big enough, for instance the height of the computational domain should bigger than three times of the height of the building model and the grid division precision has important influence on the calculated results. General speaking, the structured grid system normally has better results compared with the unstructured one and the inlet boundary condition has obvious influence on the computational results. Furthermore the influence of velocity profile is greater than that of turbulence intensity profile and turbulence model has significant influence on the computational results. And thus the different turbulence model could lead to different computational results. In addition，some suggestions are given for reasonably determining different factors in the process of applying architectural numerical wind tunnel to calculate