CFD Studies of Indoor Airflow and Contaminant Particle Transportation
- 5 December 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Particulate Science and Technology
- Vol. 25 (6), 555-570
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02726350701492728
Abstract
This article presents a numerical study of indoor airflows and contaminant particle transportation in three ventilated rooms. The realizable k − ε model is employed to model the air-phase turbulence, while the Lagrangian particle tracking model is utilized for the particle-phase simulation. The predicted air-phase velocities and contaminant particle concentrations are validated against the experimental data obtained from the literature. In the first case, the realizable k − ε model successfully captures the flow trend and reasonably predicts the airflow velocity. The realizable k − ε model under-predicts the vertical air velocities along the vertical inlet jet axis by 11% at x = 0.219 m, which is slightly better than the standard k − ε model error of 17%. In a two-zone room case, the realizable k − ε model, combined with a Lagrangian particle tracking model, predicts the particle concentration decay with the highest normalized difference being 24%. In the third case, the influence of particle size, location of particle resource, and particle-wall collision on the particle concentrations is investigated by the realizable k − ε model and the Lagrangian model. It is found that for relatively small particles (diameter ≤ 10 μm), the particle concentration may be insensitive to the particle diameter. In addition it has been observed that the particle-collision model may have considerable effect on the particle concentration prediction.Keywords
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