Experimental and numerical study of an indoor displacement ventilation system

• Main Author: Fatemiardestani, Seyediman Jr
• Other Authors: Wang, Bing-Chen (Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering)
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Displacement ventilation; Diffuser; Buoyancy; Turbulence; Supply boundary condition; Thermal comfort
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/16316

This thesis reports a new set of experimental data and presents an in-depth analysis of the flow physics of a jet stream produced by a large quarter-round corner-mounted displacement diffuser. The air velocity, temperature and turbulence intensity inside the displacement ventilation (DV) jet have been thoroughly analyzed and compared with the reported findings of previous studies and model predictions. Furthermore, thermal comfort has been analyzed using the measured data following the ASHRAE standard. This thesis also aims at establishing an accurate numerical approach for simulating the heat and fluid flow in a room ventilated by a DV system. The supply boundary condition has been thoroughly investigated, which includes tests of the conventional box and momentum modeling methods, and proposal of a more accurate modeling approach. In addition, the predictive accuracy of the standard k-ϵ, RNG k-ϵ, SST k-ω and RSM turbulence models has been examined against the experimental data.