EMBEDDED DETAILED ANALYSIS INTEGRATING CFD WITH MULTIZONE METHODS OF BUILDING AIRFLOW ANALYSIS

Methods of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) have been applied to predict the details of air,contaminant and thermal transport within isolated building zones, yet zone transport processes do notoccur in isolation they result from and interact with transport from the larger building system in whichthey are embedded. Consequently, there is a growing interest in combining CFD models of individualzones within multizone models of enclosing building systems to more faithfully model both the largerbuilding interactions and the intrazonal details.