Abstract: Air conditioning is used to maintain temperature, humidity, air circulation, and air quality within an indoor environment. Although health, safety, and economics are being given increased attention; comfort is still a major concern in the HVAC industry. This paper investigates the airflow pattern, comfort, and discomfort zones inside a seminar room. The flow patterns inside the seminar room are obtained using Computational Fluid Dynamics (Fluent Code). This paper is to use the Computational Fluid Dynamics as a design tool to get the optimum location for furniture, supply, return, and exhaust in such manner that does not affect the architectural aesthetics. Comfort air velocity for occupants is related to their position. The location of supply, return and exhaust has a great effect on the airflow distribution inside the room. Supply, return and exhaust should be located with respect to furniture location to avoid draft which affects comfort inside the room.
Keywords: Air flow, air condition, comfort, furniture distribution.
Title: Optimization of HVAC Position through Different Furniture Configurations
Author: Mohamed Elkaftangui, Yasser Awad, Wael Kamel Amr Hassan
International Journal of Engineering Research and Reviews
ISSN 2348-697X (Online)
Research Publish Journals
