Utilization of Flow Simulation in Real Life – CADVision Systems SOLIDWORKS

Utilization of Flow Simulation in Real Live

Using Flow Analysis for Temperature Monitoring in Office Area

How often do you find yourself feeling hot in the office while your colleague is shivering from the cold? Or maybe it’s the other way around which you are the one who’s feeling the cold. Like an age-old question of “is a glass half full or half empty?”, perspective of ambient temperature varies from person to person. However, the comfort level of occupant within the building is important for analysis to obtain maximum efficiency and at the same time, minimize the cost to build the system. Thus, heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) engineer should figure out a way to design a HVAC system in their maximum effort.

Optimization on Environmental Temperature

The high sensitivity of the human body towards air temperature makes HVAC system design as a challenge. Typically, these systems are based on a single temperature sensor that turns the heating or cooling unit on or off. Although this design is very simple, however it might be not so effective as we do not have an overview visualization towards the entire room layout.

In this case, HVAC simulation helps to give engineer an early insight for temperature as well as within the environment. Based on the visualization of model, engineer able to make modification to their configuration before design and implement the system towards the building, which helps them to save a boom of costs.

VALIDATION ON HUMAN COMFORT PARAMETER

Human comfort level is referring to a condition of mind, which the people express their satisfaction towards the surrounding environment. A high temperature and humidity will cause discomfort sensations which might reduce the productivity of workers and health problems. Thus, it is important to design a HVAC system which align to the HVAC design handbook.

By implementing virtual analysis, the human comfort level can be generated based on the results from flow simulation, together to optimize the system. With this, the decision of the design can be based on different perspective (such as climate, different humidity environment and so on) and helps to give a better insight on the reliability of the HVAC system.

Wrapping Up

In short, optimization in HVAC industry is crucial as a wrong decision might lead to a boom of cost for a single unit of building. SolidWorks Flow Simulation provides a sand box environment to the engineer for performing different iteration by simulation. From there, engineer can make a right decision in order to shorten the project timeline and reduce unnecessary cost.

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