Hi
I am trying to export thermal comfort rating from openFoam results, my case is using the buoyantBoussinesqSimpleFoam solver In addition to that i would like to ask anyone if there is any functionutility for calculating
1.Mean Age of Air
2.PPD
3.Draft Risk
Thanks
Hello Hamed,
I also use OpenFOAM for AQ and thermal comfort studies. The standard libraries are limited in doing those kinds of processing. However, there are some options to go around the problem. To quantified spatially resolve air exchange rate, you can add and solve a passive scalar transport, and then very easily use the Ventilation Effectiveness method to calculate local air exchange rate. You can look at the following publications in my profile with some info about ventilation effectiveness. To calculate other metrics it is possible to export solution along a line of interest in the domain and then easily calculate what you need during post processing. In the manual search for probeLocations and probes and add it to your controlDict. I hope this helps.
Aliabadi, A. A., Rogak, S. N., Bartlett, K. H., & Green, S. I. (2011), ‘Preventing Airborne Disease Transmission: Review of Methods for Ventilation Design in Health Care Facilities’, Advances in Preventive Medicine, Article ID 124064, 21 pages, doi:10.4061/2011/1240064 (Review Article).
Aliabadi, A. A., Amlani, T., Faghani, E., Tjong, H. A. R., Marmion, P., & Green, S. I. (June 1-4, 2014), ‘Hybrid Ventilation Design for a Dining Hall Using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)’, Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME) International Congress, Toronto, ON, doi:10.13140/2.1.3784.1608.
Regards,
Amir A. Aliabadi
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