In this paper, experimental results are reported about, especially, effect of turbulence in airflow-mixture in HVAC (heating, ventilating, air-conditioning) unit. A flow channel in this study has same characters as ...In this paper, experimental results are reported about, especially, effect of turbulence in airflow-mixture in HVAC (heating, ventilating, air-conditioning) unit. A flow channel in this study has same characters as actual HVAC unit, such as bent rectangular duct, a heater unit and a flow control door. The experiment was carried out to obtain verification data for analysis by using PIV (particle image velocimetry) system. Moreover, temperature map in the channel was also obtained by using thermocouples. Reynolds number is set to 12800. As a result of this study, representative velocity distributions and Reynolds stress distributions were obtained. It was found that stress value is quite high (maximum 1.4) by preliminary turbulence and mixture in the duct. In addition, it was also found that temperature diffusion is promoted by mixing around door.展开更多
文摘In this paper, experimental results are reported about, especially, effect of turbulence in airflow-mixture in HVAC (heating, ventilating, air-conditioning) unit. A flow channel in this study has same characters as actual HVAC unit, such as bent rectangular duct, a heater unit and a flow control door. The experiment was carried out to obtain verification data for analysis by using PIV (particle image velocimetry) system. Moreover, temperature map in the channel was also obtained by using thermocouples. Reynolds number is set to 12800. As a result of this study, representative velocity distributions and Reynolds stress distributions were obtained. It was found that stress value is quite high (maximum 1.4) by preliminary turbulence and mixture in the duct. In addition, it was also found that temperature diffusion is promoted by mixing around door.