August 2002 - October 2015
Sponsors: National Institute of Standards and Technology and Department of Energy
An example of coupled CFD and CONTAM simulation for a lab
A multi-zone network model, such as CONTAM, assumes uniform distributions of air temperature, pressure, and velocity in an building space so that it would generate errors for calculation of airflow in some buildings. On the other hand, a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model can determine the non-uniform distributions of air temperature, pressure, and velocity in a building space, but it requires an excessive computing time for application to an entire building. This study aims to combine a CFD model with CONTAM to reduce the computing costs while to increase the accuracy of the calculations.