Theoretical Study and CFD Simulation of Airflow Distribution through a Cold Store

Recently, the quantity of the cold store has been increased quickly. It is a key point to improve the uniformity of airflow field to the cold store. In this paper, a model of simulating cold store by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) was introduced. Simple algorithm combined with Boussineq assumption was used and turbulent equation combined with standard wall function was applied to define the flow of air in the cold store. Both the structured mesh and unstructured mesh to cold store model were simulated. The simulation methods of airflow in a cold store between three-dimension (3D) technology and two-dimension (2D) technology were also discussed. The experiment was validated and proved that unstructured grid was in better agreement with the result of experiments and it was gotten that the three-dimension (3D) technology had a higher accuracy in simulation of airflow distribution. The airflow distribution in the vertical plane and horizontal plane in cold store were gotten, respectively.