Study of thermal comfort in a room with windows at adjacent walls along with additional vents

Abstract

Hence, present work is focused in analyzing the indoor characteristics of air and thermal comfort prevailed inside the room with windows at their adjacent walls along with the additional vents. Additional openings include a roof vent and a vent in the windward side wall. In this study, Computational Fluid Dynamic technique is employed to study the indoor airflow behavior and the CFD simulation was validated with the network model. 3-Dimensional model was created and k-e turbulence model was used. Indoor airflow behavior was studied under various locations of the roof vent and best location was identified. Also another additional vent in the windward side wall was provided and analyzed under various shapes like cylindrical and nozzle shape. Air velocity, temperature, low temperature zone, low velocity zone and Predicted mean vote contours.