Article Title
Real-time flow simulation of indoor environments using lattice Boltzmann method
Keywords
real-time, lattice Boltzmann, graphics processing unit, computational fluid dynamics, hospital room
Abstract
A novel lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) based 3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technique has been implemented on the graphics processing unit (GPU) for the purpose of simulating the indoor environment in real-time. We study the time evolution of the turbulent airflow and temperature inside a test chamber and in a simple model of a four-bed hospital room. The predicted results from LBM are compared with traditional CFD based large eddy simulations (LES). Reasonable agreement between LBM results and LES method is observed with significantly faster computational times.
Publisher
Tsinghua University Press
Recommended Citation
M. Amirul Islam Khan, Nicolas Delbosc, Catherine J. Noakes et al. Real-time flow simulation of indoor environments using lattice Boltzmann method. Build Simul, 2015, 8(4): 405–414.
