Azada Ayarmal
Department of Civil Engineering and Energy Technology OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway
Ole Melhus
Department of Civil Engineering and Energy Technology OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway
Arnab Chaudhuri
Department of Civil Engineering and Energy Technology OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/ecp18153201Published in: Proceedings of The 59th Conference on Simulation and Modelling (SIMS 59), 26-28 September 2018, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 153:28, p. 201-209
Published: 2018-11-19
ISBN: 978-91-7685-494-5
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
We present numerical analysis of a cold storage room with a product load, a fan, and a sliding door by solving compressible form of the conservative 3D Navier-Stokes equation (without Boussinesq approximation) together with the energy and mass fraction equations. The commercial computer program StarCCM+ is used for this purpose. The sliding door is treated with an overset mesh on a suitable background mesh. A rigid body translation is applied by a field-function to model the opening and closing of the door. The preliminary study captures essential features of the effect of the energy transport and the cooling of the product load by the fan and the hot, moist air exchange through the doorway. The airflow behavior and heat/mass transfer mechanisms are studied and presented for several numerical experiments.
