MODELING OF TRANSIENT AIR MOVEMENT IN A MODEL OF AN INFECTIOUS WARD
Keywords:
OpenFOAM, negative pressure ventilation room, pollutant dispersionAbstract
This paper investigates the effect of different inlet and outlet configurations on air flow distribution in a negative pressure isolation room. The aim of the study is to investigate the effect of the outlet boundary pressure on the velocity field of non-stationary air flow in a model infectious disease ward. The computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method using the OpenFOAM package was used for modeling.
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