.Buildings.ThermalZones.Detailed.CFD

Information

Room model that computes the room air flow using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The CFD simulation is coupled to the thermal simulation of the room and, through the fluid port, to the air conditioning system.

Currently, the supported CFD program is the Fast Fluid Dynamics (FFD) program (Zuo 2010). See Buildings.ThermalZones.Detailed.UsersGuide for detailed explanations.

References

Wangda Zuo. Advanced simulations of air distributions in buildings. Ph.D. Thesis, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 2010.

Revisions

• September 16, 2021, by Michael Wetter:
  Removed parameter lat because the latitude is now obtained from the weather data bus.
  This is for IBPSA, #1477.
• May 2, 2016, by Michael Wetter:
  Refactored implementation of latent heat gain. This is for issue 515.
• April 21, 2016, by Michael Wetter:
  Added parameter absCfdFilNam as the call to Buildings.BoundaryConditions.WeatherData.BaseClasses.getAbsolutePath was removed from Buildings.ThermalZones.Detailed.BaseClasses.CFDExchange. This is for Buildings, #506.
• August 1, 2013, by Michael Wetter and Wangda Zuo:
  First Implementation.