A coupled airflow and energy simulation program for indoor thermal environmental studies

Conference · Sat Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 2000

OSTI ID:20104808

Srebric, J; Chen, Q; Glicksman, L R

Design of a thermally comfortable indoor environment requires detailed information about distribution of air velocity, air temperature, relative humidity, and mean radiant temperature and about the heating/cooling load in a space. This research has developed a coupled airflow and energy simulation program to calculate simultaneously the distributions of indoor airflow and thermal comfort and heating/cooling load. The coupled program can take the nonuniform distributions of indoor airflow and heating/cooling load into account. The program can also provide thermal and fluid boundary conditions normally needed for room airflow calculation. This paper demonstrates the program's capacity by applying the program to study the thermal environment in a house and an atrium. The coupled flow-and-energy program is recommended for the design of radiative, convective, and hybrid heating and cooling systems.

• Research Organization: Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge, MA (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: National Science Foundation
• OSTI ID: 20104808
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
AIR FLOW
ATRIA
COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
COOLING LOAD
HEATING LOAD
HOUSES
SPACE HVAC SYSTEMS
THERMAL COMFORT