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1 Short description

This turorial case analyzes thermal flow in air-conditioned room. It also compares CFD result with experimental result.

2 Usage

If you use fixed heat flux B.C. instead of place heat source, you need to modify the makeInit script before run.

To run this tutorial case automatically, just type:

./Allrun

After the execution it will makes figures as listed below.

• res.eps - Initial residual
• profileT.eps - Vertical profile of temperature
• profileU.eps - Vertical profile of velocity
• profilek.eps - Vertical profile of turbulent kinetic energy

To clean all files this tutorial makes, just type:

./Allclean

3 Download

• AirConditionedRoom-20090106.tar.gz Latest version
• AirConditionedRoom-20081222.tar.gz
• AirConditionedRoom-20080819.tar.gz
• AirConditionedRoom-20080813.tar.gz

Incompressible thermal flow solver boussinesqBuoyantSimpleFoam and gnuplot are required to run this tutorial.

If you use fixed heat flux B.C. instead of place heat source you also need install wallHeatFlux library.

4 References

[1] S.Murakami, S.Kato, H.Nakagawa: NUMERICAL PREDICTION OF HORIZONTAL NONISOTHERMAL 3-D JET IN ROOM BASED ON THE K-$\varepsilon$ MODEL, ASHRAE TRANSACTIONS V.97 Pt.1, pp.38-48, 1991 [PDF]

5 History

• Masa 13:31, 22 December 2008 (CET): Set convergence criterion for U, p and T individually in fvSolution.
• Masa 12:53, 19 August 2008 (CEST): Add option to use fixed heat flux B.C. on a heated wall.
• Masa 10:54, 15 August 2008 (CEST): Initial version.