On the Assessment of ventilation Performance with the Aid of Numerical Simulations

Abstract The assessment of ventilation performance is discussed. New local indices are developed with the aid of numerical simulations to quantify air diffusion and contaminant dispersion. The local purging effectiveness, Asp, is an index for evaluating the contribution of each inlet in a multi-inlet system. The local specific contaminant-accumulating index, α, can be used to indicate the tolerance of a ventilation flow to contaminants. Asp and α can be derived from transport equations. A method based on age-variation analysis is used to define Asp and the Expected Contaminant Dispersion Index (ECDI). The latter is an index for forecasting contaminant dispersion emitted at a specific location with unknown source strength. These new scales and methods can be used to assess ventilation performance.

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