Are you feeling a bit warm in the office today? 🥵 SIMULIA R&D is going to fix that.
We just delivered a cool new fluids example as part of the R2024x FD03 release. 🥶
This example, named Thermal Comfort in an Office, guides you through using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to evaluate the thermal conditions that people experience while in a closed office environment with a working HVAC system. To evaluate these conditions, you use the following apps to define, run, and analyze a steady-state heat transfer simulation:
Geometry Idealization Essentials
Fluid Model Creation
Fluid Scenario Creation
Physics Results Explorer
While evaluating the simulation's results, you use criteria to establish what most people deem as comfortable for prolonged exposure. For example, you assume that the optimal temperature range for thermal comfort is 20–24℃.
While defining the simulation model, you learn how to use abstractions to form an interior volume that serves as the fluid space, specify the physics behavior of airflow with thermal and gravity effects, and specify boundary conditions for convective heat transfer scenarios. In addition, you learn how to estimate the power input and efficiency of an HVAC system as well as the heat losses that occur through structural components. You can use what you learn from this example to examine the thermal comfort, wall insulation, and HVAC system efficiency of your own office, home, facility, etc.
To try this example for yourself, see Thermal Comfort in an Office.
Thank you to @RB, @RB, and Harpreet CHHABRA for all their effort in bringing this example to life!
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