The expansion of modern cities has increased the popularity of large space buildings.
However, without appropriate building designs and efficient heating, ventilation, and air …

The coupling of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and building energy simulation (BES)
program enables the simultaneous consideration of the indoor environment quality and …

Vertical thermal stratification is typical for partially conditioned large space building. Heat
accumulation in the upper part of unoccupied zone will have significant effect on the cooling …

As one of the commonly found tracer gas to evaluate the air quality, high concentration of
carbon dioxide (CO 2) can cause exhaustion and drowsiness in enclosed spaces, especially …

Despite the progress in high performance computing, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
simulations are still computationally expensive for many practical engineering applications …

If hazardous gaseous pollutants are deliberately released in public buildings, it is necessary
to detect them and warn promptly indoor occupants to evacuate. In this study, we propose a …

Human thermal plume is quite important to the study of airflow organization in the indoor
environment, especially in the micro-environment research such as personalized ventilation …

Pulsating ventilation has been drawing extensive attention recently. Computational fluid
dynamics (CFD), as a widely used and effective tool for investigating pulsating ventilation …

In the design of large-scale data centres, CFD is used widely but very time-consuming with
intensive computational resource requirement. When it comes to near real-time thermal …

In order to ensure indoor air quality safety, locating the airborne contaminant sources
accurately and quickly is extremely important so that timely measures can be taken to …