CFD

Real time flow simulation is crucial in emergency management in buildings, such as fire or accidentalrelease of chemical/biological agents. Proper measures can be taken to minimize casualties withcorrect and timely prediction of the spread of the fire or contaminants. Although the traditional CFDsimulation in buildings is accurate, it is too time consuming. Multizone flow modeling is fast, but itsaccuracy is poor.

In large enclosures such as gymnasiums, it is difficult to control the air temperature and create a comfortableclimate for people with respect to the heating condition. There are two main reasons that the air temperature in anoccupied area is not increased efficiently in large enclosures. 1) Hot supplied air goes up and stays in the upperarea due to buoyancy and it takes long time to reach the lower occupied area. 2) The heat capacity of the buildingstructure affects the air temperature and cold air stays in the lower area.

Asphalt fume from Aluminum Industries is one of pollutants, which must be decontaminated in theventilation systems. In this paper, two feasible structures of adsorbers were designed: the venturi-typeadsorber with the small-diameter throat pipe and that with the flow-guiding cone. Then these two kindsof adsorbers were optimized according to the factors which influence the diffusion of the adsorbentparticles.

An Earth-to-Air Heat Exchanger (ETAHE) uses the ground’s thermal storage capacity to dampen ambient air temperature oscillations by delivering the outdoor air to the indoors through a horizontally buried duct. Most ETAHE simulation models assume the airfl

This paper presents a numerical study of the coupled airflow and thermal environment in asemi-enclosed space surrounded by buildings. Our numerical simulation couples the heat transfercalculation and the computational fluid dynamic (CFD) airflow simulation in which a RNG(renormalization-group) k-? model is used. Both the solar radiation and building/ground thermal storagewere considered in the heat transfer part.

Ventilation strategies play an important role of enhancing thermal comfort, Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) andenergy conservation in any conditioned space. Introduced in late 90s, Impinging Jet Ventilation (IJV) isthe system that can utilize stratification, while supplying with high velocity. With this characteristic andthe simplicity of its terminal configuration, IJV has an advantage over well-known DisplacementVentilation (DV) system. In this study, IJV system was investigated for establishing the protocol used inComputational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation.

The prediction of plume dispersion near buildings is very important for the design of exhaust stacks andair intakes in order to avoid adverse air quality impacts. However, it is difficult to predict pollutantdispersion with certain accuracy due to the complex interaction between atmospheric flow and flowaround buildings.

Introduced in late 90’s, Impinging Jet Ventilation (IJV) is the system that can utilize stratification, while supplying with medium to high velocity. This characteristic makes IJV easy to be controlled and operated, while room Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) can

Application of night cooling to educational buildings looks very promising in mild climates. Night coolingstrategy performance in a school building to be realised in Italy during 2008 has been studied by meansof a commercial CFD code.Due to the symmetry of the building, first a 2D numerical model consisting of a vertical section throughthe three-storey building has been developed. The CFD model includes the solid zone describing theconcrete structure.

It is necessary to unsteadily accurately estimate handling and time-related spatial distribution of theindoor environment element in respect of externality meteorological phenomenon and time-varyingmovement of the heating and cooling load in order to carry out the thermal environment design in detail.With the speedup of the recent computer, the unsteady CFD calculation was practically carried out andresults fed back to the environmental design.However, time subtraction interval and convergence decision are appropriately set at the case of theunsteady analysis, and it is necessary to examine