Computational fluid dynamics for indoor environment modeling: Past, present, and future

Qingyan Chen; Zhao Zhang; Wangda Zuo

Computational fluid dynamics for indoor environment modeling: Past, present, and future

Qingyan Chen
, Zhao Zhang
, Wangda Zuo

Architectural Engineering

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9 Scopus citations

Abstract

This paper gave an overview of the past and present applications of various Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) methods for indoor environment modeling. Typical applications used the CFD to calculate airflow, air temperature, contaminant concentrations, and turbulence in enclosed environment for studying or designing thermal comfort and indoor air quality. With simple airflow and geometry, the CFD is capable of calculating accurately mean flow parameters but less accurately turbulence parameters. For airflow in real indoor environment, it is very challenging to measure and calculate accurately the mean and turbulence flow parameters, because neither of them are free from errors. Thus, a complete validation of the CFD results by the corresponding experimental data obtained on site is extremely difficult. In the future, CFD applications for indoor environment will deal with more complicated dynamic problems and will require a method for faster than real time simulations of airflow. The Fast Fluid Dynamics (FFD) can dramatically enhance the computing speed. By running the FFD on GPUs, it is possible to perform faster than real time simulations of airflow in indoor environment.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	IAQVEC 2007 Proceedings - 6th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings
Subtitle of host publication	Sustainable Built Environment
Pages	1-9
Number of pages	9
State	Published - 2007
Event	6th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings: Sustainable Built Environment, IAQVEC 2007 - Sendai, Japan Duration: Oct 28 2007 → Oct 31 2007

Publication series

Name	IAQVEC 2007 Proceedings - 6th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings: Sustainable Built Environment
Volume	3

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Other	6th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings: Sustainable Built Environment, IAQVEC 2007
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Sendai
Period	10/28/07 → 10/31/07

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

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Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Chen, Q., Zhang, Z., & Zuo, W. (2007). Computational fluid dynamics for indoor environment modeling: Past, present, and future. In IAQVEC 2007 Proceedings - 6th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings: Sustainable Built Environment (pp. 1-9). (IAQVEC 2007 Proceedings - 6th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings: Sustainable Built Environment; Vol. 3).

Chen, Qingyan ; Zhang, Zhao ; Zuo, Wangda. / Computational fluid dynamics for indoor environment modeling : Past, present, and future. IAQVEC 2007 Proceedings - 6th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings: Sustainable Built Environment. 2007. pp. 1-9 (IAQVEC 2007 Proceedings - 6th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings: Sustainable Built Environment).

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Chen, Q, Zhang, Z & Zuo, W 2007, Computational fluid dynamics for indoor environment modeling: Past, present, and future. in IAQVEC 2007 Proceedings - 6th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings: Sustainable Built Environment. IAQVEC 2007 Proceedings - 6th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings: Sustainable Built Environment, vol. 3, pp. 1-9, 6th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings: Sustainable Built Environment, IAQVEC 2007, Sendai, Japan, 10/28/07.

Computational fluid dynamics for indoor environment modeling: Past, present, and future. / Chen, Qingyan; Zhang, Zhao; Zuo, Wangda.
IAQVEC 2007 Proceedings - 6th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings: Sustainable Built Environment. 2007. p. 1-9 (IAQVEC 2007 Proceedings - 6th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings: Sustainable Built Environment; Vol. 3).

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