Validation of Boundary Conditions for CFD Simulations on Ventilated Rooms

The application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for ventilation research and design of ventilation systems has increased during the recent years. This paper provides an investigation of direct description of boundary conditions for a complex inlet diffuser and a heated surface. A series of full-scale experiments in a room ventilated by the mixing principle have been performed for validation of the models. The experimental results include measurements of temperature as well as measurements of velocity and turbulence by Laser Doppler Anemometry (LDA). A simple model of the complex inlet diffuser showed good agreement with the experimentally obtained results although differences were observed in the flow far from the inlet. None of the investigated models of the heated surface did provide satisfactory results.