Inverse determination of wall boundary convective heat fluxes in indoor environments based on CFD

Abstract The boundary convective heat transfer of air-conditioned rooms has a large effect on the indoor thermal environment. To design a comfortable thermal environment, the unknown wall boundary convective heat fluxes must be determined. Current inverse models that determine the required thermal boundary conditions must use an iterative guess-and-correct procedure, which is quite time-consuming. This study proposes an inverse method based on Tikhonov regularisation and least-squares optimisation using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to determine the wall boundary convective heat fluxes in indoor environments. The wall convective boundary heat fluxes can then be solved by inverse matrix operations with discrete target temperatures at distinct points. To accelerate the solving procedure, the contribution ratio of indoor climate (CRI) is applied to describe the cause–effect relation between the wall convective heat fluxes and the resulted discrete temperatures at certain points. This study finds that the developed inverse method can accurately and efficiently determine the wall convective heat fluxes. The only prerequisites to implement the proposed inverse method are a fixed flow field and the given target temperatures at certain points in space.

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