| Title |
Study on Coupled Simulation of Convection, Radiation, and HVAC System Control Cooling/Heating Load Analysis with Given PMV Value |
| Keywords |
CFD ; Coupled Simulation ; Cooling/Heating Load ; |
| Abstract |
A CFD simulation for analyzing indoor cooling/heating load is presented in this study. It is coupled with a radiative heat transfer simulation and HVAC control system in a room. This new method feeds back the outputs of the HVAC system control to the input boundary conditions of the CFD, and this method includes a human model to evaluate the thermal environment. It would be used to analyze the heating/cooling loads of different HVAC systems under the condition of the same human thermal sensation even though the temperature and air-velocity distribution in the room are different from each other.
To examine the performance of the new method, a cooling load and a thermal environment within a semi-enclosed space, which opens into an atrium space, is analyzed under the steady-state conditions during the summer season. This method is able to analyze the indoor cooling load with changes of target thermal environments of a room considering the temperature and the air-velocity distribution in the room. In this paper, two types of HVAC system are compared; i.e. radiation-panel system and all-air cooling system. The radiation-panel cooling system is found to be more energy-efficient for cooling the semi-enclosed space. Changes of the level of thermal environment reduce cooling load effectively in case of the all-air cooling system while the radiation-panel system does not reduce cooling load even though the targeted thermal condition is relaxed. |