Use of CFD in creation of safe conditions, both within industrial and residential spaces.
Promotion of safe conditions
Proper heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems play an important role in the creation of safe conditions, both within industrial and residential spaces.
These systems are necessary to provide individuals with air conditions that are humanly comfortable to withstand. Also, they are required to comply with safety regulations that consider detailed factors, dependent on the purpose of each building or single room.
Is ventilation really necessary?
Doing a detailed ventilation study at the design phase of any physical space, will contribute to:
Ensure high air quality and a comfortable environment for users of the room or building.
Prevent suboptimal and even dangerous room temperatures.
Prevent undesired draughts.
Prevent poor hygiene and infections.
Prevent health issues due to inhalation of poisonous gases.
Validate that the chosen size of HVAC systems fits the specific need.
Reduce energy requirements, avoiding excessive power usage.
Prevent damage of machinery or equipment.
Minimize risk of fire, through controlled containment and spreading.
In the pharmaceutical and food industry, ventilation is especially relevant since faulty airing may lead to serious health issues not only directly affecting the employees, but also the consumers of the companies’ products.
At any industry where the presence of harmful gases is unavoidable, careful ventilation design and installation are required. However, at the design and construction stage of any type of building, ventilation systems must be considered a high priority, to warrant safe conditions at later stages.
How to achieve proper ventilation
Air temperature, velocity, humidity and in some applications, gas concentration, are closely monitored to assess the quality of a ventilation system. Each one of these variables needs to comply with specific regulations adapted to the purpose of different rooms and buildings.
The most common way to comply with these regulations is through the installation of heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems. However, in some cases natural ventilation can be enough. In order to assess if this is possible – or not – to find a suitable HVAC size, a ventilation study must be carried out.
Increase your ventilation system efficiency, through a detailed assessment using CFD
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) can be used to assess whether a room complies with optimal ventilation, through quantification of critical variables.
Additionally, solutions tailored to specific rooms and conditions can easily be found using CFD. This ensures highly efficient operations of your ventilation systems, leading to prolonged lifetime and reduced costs.
Full-scale 3D fluid dynamic numerical simulations allow for the modelling and complex geometries to obtain the values of all relevant variables at any point of the room. This cannot be done through analytical calculations, which mainly allow for obtaining average values. Average values are not necessarily representative of critical zones, potentially leading to incompliance of regulations and safety issues for the users inside the buildings.
The use of CFD permits obtaining the necessary information, removing the dependency of expensive and time-consuming tests.
Modelling of real conditions
Our 3D numerical models assess natural ventilation caused by external flows, as well as forced ventilation achieved through mechanical systems. In doing so, draught and air leakage quantification also come into play.
Regarding heat transfer, different heat sources and sinks (e.g. lighting gain, human gain, ground loss) are considered, as well as the different heat transfer methods (conduction, convection, radiation).
Draughts, flow vortices, local temperatures and solar radiation, are some of the most relevant phenomena affecting ventilation, and their detailed study without CFD – or expensive testing – is hardly possible.
Time and cost reduction
When it comes to the design phase of the ventilation system for a room or building, replacing tests with high-quality numerical simulations has a direct contribution on time and cost reduction. Additionally, CFD can be used to estimate the optimal size of the HVAC system, which leads to a reduction of both capital and operating expenses.
It is highly encouraged to carry out a detailed CFD study before the installation of the HVAC system, to avoid re-dimensioning and re-installation costs caused by poor initial design – not to mention the downtime caused by these undesired procedures.
Easy start
At FORCE Technology, we conduct all the aforementioned tests for you – with the least amount of complications. In order for us to provide you with the optimal ventilation solutions based on our CFD simulations, we need:
2D drawings or 3D CAD of your desired object of study.
Baseline configuration of natural and forced ventilation (if any).
HVAC system (if any) data: flowrate, temperature, specific heat.
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) can be used to assess whether a room complies with optimal ventilation, through quantification of critical variables. Additionally, solutions tailored to specific rooms and conditions can easily be found using CFD.
CFD modelling serves as a powerful tool for analysing and optimising car park ventilation systems. By simulating airflow patterns and studying the effects of different design configurations, engineers can identify areas that require improvement.
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling of air flow field, mean age of air and CO2 distributions inside a bedroom with different heights of conditioned air supply outlet.
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is used as a design tool for car park ventilation systems. The main advantage of CFD analysis is that the design strategy can be optimized prior to the installation of ventilation system, providing confidence to the contactor early in the project.
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is the science of using computers to predict liquid and gas flows based on the governing equations of conservation of mass, momentum, and energy. Fluids are all around us and sustain our lives in endless ways.
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is the analysis of fluid flows using numerical solution methods. Using CFD, you are able to analyze complex problems involving fluid-fluid, fluid-solid or fluid-gas interaction.
However, solving the Navier-Stokes equations analytically, is not possible. Therefore, it is necessary to simplify the equations and solve them in an iterative way. In order to simulate a gas or liquid flow in a specific environment, the user needs to determine which simplifications to apply.
CFD Analysis & Consultancy. Using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technology, we can finely tune your HVAC installation to meet specific requirements before even mounting a single piece of equipment onboard your ship. CFD enables us to realistically simulate air flows within the project space in advance.
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For most simulations, where the number of nodes is below 10M, 32GB RAM will be well enough. However, if you run multiple analyses on one PC, it may be worth increasing the memory up to 64 GB. For the larger models above 10M nodes, we recommend 2 GB of RAM per 1M nodes.
Essentially, one implements a model into a computer code and then uses the code to perform a CFD simulation which yield values used in the engineering analysis. Verification and validation examines the errors in the code and simulation results.
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