Aerodynamics of Ventilation

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Department of Environmental Engineering

Synopsis:

Application of fluid mechanics principles in heating, ventilation and air-conditioning. Solution tools for problems concerning air flow indoors or in ducts.

Requirements:

Basics of fluid mechanics.

Syllabus of lectures:

Incompressible fluid flow, kinematics and deformation of fluid element, potential flow, Euler equations, Bernoulli equation, Navier-Stokes equations, turbulence, Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes equations, indoor air flow, experimental methods.

Syllabus of tutorials:

Static pressure in a building, air flow in ducts, mean velocities, potential flow, air exhaust ventilation of industrial tanks, boundary layer flow, free jet, wall jet.

Study Objective:

Knowledge and skills in practical applications of fluid flow principles in ventilation.

Study materials:

Etheridge, D., Sandberg M. Building Ventilation: Theory and Measurement. Chichester : J. Wiley & Sons, 1996.

724 s. ISBN 0-471-96087-X.

· Cohen I. M., Kundu P. K., Ayyaswamy P. S. Fluid Mechanics, 4th ed. Oxford : Academic Press, 2008. 901 pp.

ISBN 978-0-08-055583-6 [e-book].

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