"Real-time flow simulation of indoor environments using lattice Boltzma" by M. Amirul Islam Khan, Nicolas Delbosc et al.

Building Simulation: An International Journal

Article Title

Real-time flow simulation of indoor environments using lattice Boltzmann method

Authors

M. Amirul Islam Khan, School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
Nicolas Delbosc, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
Catherine J. Noakes, School of Civil Engineering, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
Jonathan Summers, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK

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.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/s12273-015-0232-9

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.

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