Simulation Based on CFD to Temperature and Flow Fields of Vertical Air Conditioner Operation

Abstract:

The sales volume of vertical air conditioner in China mainland has developed rapidly. The researches in the field to the operation of vertical air conditioner are lacked since it is hardly to analyze different kinds of operating condition. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has been applied in engineering with the advance of the computer science and technology. In this article, both temperature and air flow distributions were analyzed to a meeting room which putted a vertical air conditioner. The model was used and the equations for numerical simulation (e.g. energy, residual, continuity, etc) were chosen as second order to get the higher accuracy. The results to simulation were showed reasonable and could offer a reference to the practical.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 594-597)
• Pages: 2106-2111
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.594-597.2106
• Online since: November 2012
• Authors: Yi Tang, Jin Feng Wang, Jing Xie, Zheng Zhang, Rui Liu
• Keywords: Air Flow Distribution, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Simulation, Temperature Distribution, Vertical Air Conditioner

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