Isabelle Lavedrine, Patric Thomas, James Tharp, Jerry Sipes
Year:
2005
Bibliographic info:
Building Simulation, 2005, Montreal, Canada, 6 p

Burn Intensive Care Units (ICU) have among the most stringent design criteria for patient rooms in hospital design. Communication between the healthcare professionals, the architect designing the room layout and the mechanical engineer designing the HVAC system is critical to ensure that their design converges to meet the required therapeutic criteria. A Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) analysis played an important part in this process for a University Medical Center, and a physical test of the final set-up helped to fine-tune and confirm the design. Further comparisons between the CFD analysis and the experimental measurements were carried out to validate the original numerical approach.