Conference Paper

Proceedings of Building Simulation 2011: 12th Conference of IBPSA

CFD Modelling of Plume Interaction in Natural Ventilation

Faisal Durrani, Malcolm J. Cook, Jim J. McGuirk

DOI: https://doi.org/10.26868/25222708.2011.1418
Abstract: This paper investigates the accuracy of CFD simulation in predicting the nature of multiple plume interactions in a naturally ventilated indoor environment. RANS-based turbulence models; k-ε and RNG k-ε were used to predict the twin plume interaction experiment reported by Kaye and Linden (2004). It was observed that the k-ε turbulence model showed a large discrepancy with measurements while the results obtained from the RNG k-ε model were in better accord with the experimental results. A grid sensitivity analysis of the computational solution also formed part of this study.
Pages: 1175 - 1181
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