Development and Application of a Computer Code for Prediction of Indoor Pollutant Dispersion

새집증후군 저감대책을 위한 실내 오염물질 확산 해석 코드 개발 및 적용

  • Received : 2010.06.15
  • Published : 2010.11.10

Abstract

An efficient code has been developed to predict dispersion of indoor air pollutants. The computing capability of the code has been compared with that of a commercial code in a benchmark test. After that, the code has been employed to compute dispersion of a pollutant released from a new furniture, a kind of Sick Building Syndrome(SBS). A sofa which generates formaldehyde is implemented by using an immersed boundary method. Large Eddy Simulation (LES) is employed to obtain time-dependent velocity and concentration fields. LES has been regarded as an academic tool, but the newly-developed code reveals a possibility of application of LES to practical problems, especially dispersion of indoor pollutants.

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