Effect of Skylight Width on Natural Ventilation in Industrial Workshop

Abstract:

The authors numerically simulated the natural ventilation in an industrial workshop with heat sources by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method and the effect of skylight size on the indoor temperature, ventilation rate and air flow patterns inside the workshop was discussed in detail. Realizable k- turbulent model was used to calculate the flow. Results show that a larger skylight width improves the ventilation. The average air temperature at operation zone decreases and the waste heat directly going into the operation zone decreases when the skylight width increases. The ventilation rate increases very slightly when the skylight width increases from 6 meters to 9 meters, while it increases sharply when w exceeds 10 meters. When the skylight width increases, more hot air is exhausted and the higher temperature environment in the upper zone of the workshop is improved.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 446-449)
• Pages: 2904-2907
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.446-449.2904
• Online since: January 2012
• Authors: Ya Xin Su, Xin Wan, A Long Su
• Keywords: Industrial Workshop, Natural Ventilation, Simulation, Skylight Size

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