This paper reports the results of a study of the transient removal of contaminant particle from enclosures. These results are the basic instruments for finding a model for contaminant particle removal from an enclosure containing an obstacle. A numerical CFD code is developed and validated with different cases, then proper two- and three-dimensional cases are modeled and improvements are done. The improvements are done by proper positioning the inlet/outlet vents. The size and position of the obstacle affect the order of magnitude of the convection-diffusion terms in the Navier-Stokes equations, hence results in different phenomena while removing the particles. One of these phenomena, the step effect, is more detailed in reference [41]. The results of these two papers may be compacted into one whole theory, describing the particle removal efficiency from an enclosure as a function of obstacle position and size.

Volume Subject Area:
Heat Transfer
Topics:
Particulate matter, Vents, Computational fluid dynamics, Convection, Diffusion (Physics), Instrumentation, Navier-Stokes equations, Transients (Dynamics)
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