DIFFERENT APPROACHES FOR THE SIMULATION OF AN EXPERIMENTAL BUILDING HOSTING A CLIMATE CHAMBER DEVOTED TO ARTIFICIAL FOG PRODUCTION

In the context of a european project dealing with the issue of transport safety improvement in fog conditions, an experimental building has been constructed on the FUL campus, in the southern part of Belgium. This building hosts a climatic chamber in which a given indoor climate is to be maintained (temperature and relative humidity) whatever the external climate, in order to promote the artifical production of fog by water droplets spraying. During the design of the building and of the HVAC plant, different simulation approaches were carried out in order to evaluate and possibly optimize the technical choices concerning: