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Title: Influencing factors in the simulation of airflow and particle transportation in aircraft cabins by CFD
Authors: Cao, Q
Liu, M
Li, X
Lin, CH
Wei, D
Ji, S
Zhang, TT
Chen, Q 
Issue Date: Jan-2022
Source: Building and environment, Jan. 2022, v. 207, pt. B., 108413
Abstract: To control the transport of particles such as the SARS-CoV-2 virus in airliner cabins, which is a significant concern for the flying public, effective ventilation systems are essential. Validated computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models are frequently and effectively used to investigate air distribution and contaminant transportation. The complex geometry and airflow characteristics in airliner cabins pose a challenge to numerical CFD validation. The objective of this investigation was to identify accurate and affordable validation processes for studying the airflow field and particulate contaminant distribution in airliner cabins during the design process for different ventilation systems. This study quantitatively evaluated the effects of ventilation system, turbulence model, particle simulation method, geometry simplification, and boundary condition assignment on airflow and particulate distributions in airliner cabins with either a mixing ventilation (MV) system or a displacement ventilation (DV) system calculated by CFD. The results showed that among four turbulence models, the standard k-ε, RNG k-ε, realizable k-ε and SST k-ω models, the prediction by the realizable k-ε model agreed most closely with the experimental data. Meanwhile, the steady Eulerian method provided a reasonable prediction of the particle concentration field with low computing cost. The computational domain should be simplified differently for the DV system and the MV system with consideration of the simulation accuracy and computing cost. For more accurate modeling results, the boundary conditions should be assigned in greater detail, taking into account the uniformity on the boundary.
Keywords: Airliner cabin
CFD
Displacement ventilation
Mixing ventilation
Particle transport
Validation
Publisher: Pergamon Press
Journal: Building and environment 
ISSN: 0360-1323
EISSN: 1873-684X
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2021.108413
Rights: © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
© 2021. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
The following publication Cao, Q., Liu, M., Li, X., Lin, C.-H., Wei, D., Ji, S., Zhang, T., & Chen, Q. (2022). Influencing factors in the simulation of airflow and particle transportation in aircraft cabins by CFD. Building and Environment, 207, 108413 is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2021.108413.
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