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Natural Convection Analysis of a Warehouse
1. Addresses the thermal comfort for a small office setup inside a warehouse
2. Temperature and Velocity distribution inside the warehouse
3. Covers open and closed window scenarios

Thermal Comfort of an office space. Looking at how the air moves from the circular diffusers (note the coanda) and whether the occupants are comfortable.

Thermal comfort assessment of an office space using CFD with SimScale.

Testing two configurations for ventilation in a warehouse. Several heat sources are placed throughout the area. The objective is to evaluate how the different configurations perform in terms of predicted mean vote (PMV) & predicted percentage of dissatisfied (PPD). A total of 20 people (represented as cylinders) were placed inside of the warehouse.

Convective heat transfer analysis were carried out, with the radiation formulation on. By placing two simple outlets on the ceiling of the warehouse, ventilation was greatly improved and all 20 people were within the -0.5 to 0.5 PMV range.

Conjugate heat transfer is a behavioural analysis where convective (transfer between fluid) and conductive (transfer between solids) heat transfer takes place in a system. This combination of heat transfer has forced or natural convection where fluid is dominated by convection and solid is dominated by conduction. 
Objective of the Experiment is to
Carry out mesh Independent study
Stimulate CHT using two different processor materials
Carry out the analysis at different velocities 
To determine the hot spots and Heat transfer co-efficient at different velocities

This project aims at analyzing and understanding how thermal comfort can be achieved in an office space of 4 occupants.
The scenario takes place in summer conditions ( 42C outside temperature and  65 relative humidity). The thermal comfort metric used in this project is predicted mean vote (PMV) and the target range is -0.5/0.5.
The original scenario results, where the external walls have a low insulation value and the inlet temperature is 19.85 degrees Celsius,  show exceeding PMV values (2.8 on average at the humans' surfaces) that are beyond the recommended ASHRAE-55-2017 values.
To improve the PMV values and the energy consumed in order to cool the occupants, the insulation value for the walls and windows were changed to reflect the impact of adding an insulation layer. The results of the improved scenario show a significant saving in energy spending whereas the thermal comfort of the occupant isn't changed significantly. 
The next stage is to adjust and find an inlet temperature at a suitable level in order for the occupants to feel comfortable. The flowrate value wasn't modified because it would produce airspeed and therefore negatively impact the PMV values.
Working with a difference between the average room air temperature and the inlet temperature of 9 degrees Celsius, and aiming for a 22degres Celsius average room temperature as a starting point, an inlet of 14 degrees was used.
Simulation runs were performed at 14,13,12,11, and 10 deg Celsius until the measured PMV values for the occupants were all within the target range of (0.5/0.5). The  satisfactory condition scenario was determined to be with a 10 degrees Celsius inlet temperature.

Computation of the Local Mean Age of Air in a meeting room using CFD simulation. Useful for

Assessment of thermal comfort inside a hall

In this tutorial, we will study the flow within an office.
After completion, we will understand the basics required to set up such an HVAC simulation and use the simulation to understand if the office workers will be comfortable.

Internal flow and thermal analysis to understand the thermal comfort within a large atrium.  This is a typical example of the type of applications that our AEC customers perform on a regular basis.

Simulation of thermal comfort inside an 80 square meter housing unit in Cairo

Internal CFD study of air flow and thermal comfort.

A small part of the SimScale office . We actually don't have any active cooling here (Germany) so we took a few liberties to make this more interesting!

Simulation of air conditioning currents in an office, with curtain wall, with and without UV adhesive sun protection

Analysis of the thermal comfort in Pantheon.
1st study: Incompressible external flow simulation to find the air exchange rate
2nd study: Internal convection simulation inside the building

Predicting Window Fogging with SimScale CFD.

HVAC of an entire floor of an office building.

CFD analysis of airflow within an apartment to evaluate thermal comfort and investigate draft.

CFD simulation of an HVAC system inside an atrium. Several design version with and without radiators to test radiation capabilities.

CFD analysis of airflow within an apartment.

This project simulates the cooling  of a CAE office building with a server room.

This is the project presented in the SimScale webinar 'Thermal Comfort Assessment for ASHRAE 55 with CFD':
https://www.simscale.com/webinars-workshops/thermal-comfort-ashrae-55/

In this project we are interested in designing the HVAC outlets for a big theater room to improve the thermal comfort of the occupants inside.

Thermal comfort of a child within a stroller at different configurations.

This project shows how to simulate the airflow inside an office space.

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