NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF TURBULENT AIR FLOW IN A ROOM USING THE OPENFOAM PACKAGE
Keywords:
plain jet, turbulence models, RNG k-ε, k-ω SST, ventilationAbstract
A numerical simulation of the air flow in a room was carried out using the CFD approach to solve the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equation for a liquid. Dimensionless velocities are presented and compared for various turbulence models: standard k-ε, standard k-ω, RNG k-ε, k-ω SST. The results explain that all turbulence models give almost the same results.
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