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Performance of fast fluid dynamics with a semi-Lagrangian scheme and an implicit upwind scheme in simulating indoor/outdoor airflow
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Civil and Architectural Engineering, Sustainable Buildings.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1285-2334
Dalian Univ Technol, Sch Civil Engn, Dalian 116024, Peoples R China..
Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, Sch Design, Dept Architecture, Shanghai 200240, Peoples R China..
Dalian Univ Technol, Sch Civil Engn, Dalian 116024, Peoples R China..
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2022 (English)In: Building and Environment, ISSN 0360-1323, E-ISSN 1873-684X, Vol. 207, article id 108477Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Computational fluid dynamics can be time consuming for predicting indoor airflows and pollutant transport in large-scale problems or emergency management. Fast fluid dynamics (FFD) is able to accomplish efficient and accurate simulation of indoor/outdoor airflow. FFD solves the advection term of the Navier-Stokes equations either by a semi-Lagrangian (SL) scheme or an implicit upwind (IU) scheme. The SL scheme can be highly efficient, but its first-order version is not conservative and introduces significant numerical diffusion. To improve its accuracy, a high-order temporal and interpolation scheme that not only reduces dissipation and dispersion errors but also guarantees the convergence speed should be applied. Otherwise, an IU scheme instead could be used to solve the advection term. The IU scheme is conservative and introduces minor numerical diffusion, but it may increase the computation time. Therefore, this study investigated the performance of FFD with SL scheme using high-order temporal and interpolation schemes and that with IU scheme. The comparisons used experimental data of two indoor airflows and one outdoor airflow. The results showed that FFD with IU scheme was overall more accurate than FFD with SL scheme. In simulating indoor airflow, both methods were robust and the predictions were independent of time step sizes if the Courant number was less than or equal to one. In simulating the outdoor airflow, the FFD with SL scheme performed better than the FFD with IU scheme for large time step sizes. The FFD with IU scheme consumed 44%-61% computing time of the FFD with SL scheme.

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Elsevier BV , 2022. Vol. 207, article id 108477
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Pressure-correction scheme, Numerical diffusion, Time step size, OpenFOAM
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Building Technologies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-311904DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2021.108477ISI: 000779437000004Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85119196058OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-311904DiVA, id: diva2:1656584
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Available from: 2022-05-06 Created: 2022-05-06 Last updated: 2022-06-25Bibliographically approved

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