Understanding the behavior of airflow in a room is essential for building designers to provide the most efficient design of ventilation system, and having acceptable indoor air quality. This trend is the motive to solve the relationship between airflow parameters and thermal comfort. This paper investigates airflow characteristics, indoor air quality (IAQ), and the thermal comfort (TC) in a ven...

In this paper, a numerical model is presented to study the indoor air quality (IAQ) in a room with different emission sources, sinks, and ventilation methods. A computer program, ACCESS-IAQ, is developed to simulate the airflow pattern, the time history of the contaminant concentrations in the occupied zone, and the inhalation exposures. The program developed may be useful for IAQ professional ...

BACKGROUND Diaphragm motion during spontaneous or mechanical respiration hinders image-guided percutaneous interventions of tumours in lung and upper abdomen. Motion-tracking methods can be applied but increase procedure complexity and procedure time. One-lung flooding (OLF) generates a suitable acoustic pathway to lung tumours and likely suppress diaphragm motion. The aim of this study was to ...

This paper reported the investigation of the performance of floor-supply displacement ventilation with swirl diffusers or perforated panels under a high cooling load (nearly 90W/m). The experiment was carried out in a full-scale environmental chamber to obtain reliable data on the floor-supply displacement ventilation for the validation of a computational-fluid-dynamics (CFD) program. Numerical...

This study aims to acquire an understanding of the fundamental feature IJV and DV under heating operation. Full-scale experiments were conducted these two different systems supply air conditions along with temperature distribution ventilation effectiveness. A wall surface test room was cooled as a load, elements simulating occupants located internal heat load contaminant emission source. Three ...

UNLABELLED Many modern low-energy ventilation schemes, such as displacement or natural ventilation, take advantage of temperature stratification in a space, extracting the warmest air from the top of the room. The adoption of these energy-efficient ventilation systems still requires the provision of acceptable indoor air quality. In this work we study the steady state transport of particulate c...

The purpose of the study was to investigate the performance of displacement ventilation in a large factory hall where large components of stainless steel for paper, pulp and chemical industries were manufactured. The performance of displacement ventilation was evaluated in terms of concentration distributions of welding fumes and grinding particles, flow field of the supply air and temperature ...

Air cleanliness in operating theatres (OTs) is an important factor for preserving the health of both the patient and the medical staff. Particle contamination in OTs depends mainly on the surgery process, ventilation principle, personnel clothing systems and working routines. In many open surgical operations, electrosurgical tools (ESTs) are used for tissue cauterization. ESTs generate a signif...