A two-layer turbulence model for simulating indoor airflow - Part II. Applications

Weiran Xu; Qingyan Chen

doi:10.1016/S0378-7788(00)00130-4

A two-layer turbulence model for simulating indoor airflow - Part II. Applications

Weiran Xu, Qingyan Chen

Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering

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Abstract

Energy efficient buildings should provide a thermally comfortable and healthy indoor environment. Most indoor airflows involve combined forced and natural convection (mixed convection). This paper used a two-layer model to predict such flows. This model used a one-equation model for near-wall region and the standard k-ε model for the outer-wall region. Its validation in six cases shows good agreements between the computed results and measured data. In addition, the computing cost required by the model has been reduced significantly.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	627-639
Number of pages	13
Journal	Energy and Buildings
Volume	33
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-7788(00)00130-4
Publication status	Published - Jul 2001

Keywords

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
Indoor airflow
Two-layer turbulence model

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Civil and Structural Engineering
Building and Construction
Mechanical Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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