Summary
The field synergy principle has been validated to be an effective tool for enhancing convective heat transfer capability. Since convective mass transfer is analogous to convective heat transfer, the field synergy principle has been extended to convective mass transfer analyses to enhance the overall decontamination rate of indoor ventilation systems. According to the field synergy principle, the overall decontamination capability and the utilization efficiency of the air are both influenced by the synergy between the velocity vectors and the contaminant concentration gradients. Furthermore, in order to derive a method to improve the synergy based on the essence of convective mass transfer, the mass transfer potential capacity dissipation function is defined, and then the convective mass transfer field synergy equation is obtained by seeking the extremum of the mass transfer potential capacity dissipation function for a set of specified constraints. The convective mass transfer field synergy equation can be solved to find the optimized air velocity distribution to increase the field synergy and the overall decontamination capability. The optimized air velocity field provides guidance for optimizing ventilation system designs. [Reprinted with permission from Elsevier. Copyright, 2007].
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- Original title: Field synergy analysis and optimization of decontamination ventilation designs.
- Record ID : 2008-1320
- Languages: English
- Source: International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer - vol. 51 - n. 3-4
- Publication date: 2008/02
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