Natural convection in an empty room with only surface boundary
This model tests the coupled simulation of Buildings.ThermalZones.Detailed.CFD
with the FFD program by simulating the natural convection in an
empty room with only surface boundaries. It is also used to test
the adiabatic boundary conditon in the FFD code.
Figure (a) shows the schematic of the FFD simulation. The
following conditions are applied in the Modelica model:
- East Wall: Fixed temperature at 40°C,
- West Wall: Fixed temperature at 10°C,
- North and South Wall, Ceiling, Floor: Fixed heat flux at
0 W/m2.

Figure (a)
Figure (b) shows the velocity vectors and temperature contours
in degree Celsius on the X-Z plane at Y = 0.5 m as simulated
by the FFD.

Figure (b)
- January 12, 2019, by Michael Wetter:
Removed wrong use of each.
- July 7, 2015 by Michael Wetter:
Removed model for prescribed heat flow boundary condition as the
value was zero and hence the model is not needed. This is for
issue
439.
- December 31, 2013, by Wangda Zuo:
First implementation.
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