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Immersogeometric thermal analysis of flows inside buildings with reconfigurable components

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The design and operation of energy sustainable buildings rely on the comprehensive understanding of how ventilation flows are influenced by different configurations. In this work, we present an immersogeometric framework for the thermal analysis of turbulent flows inside or around geometrically complex designs for this purpose. The framework utilizes a variational multiscale method to model the incompressible turbulent flows. We propose a streamline/upwind Petrov–Galerkin formulation for the advection–diffusion equation of energy balance and augment it with a discontinuity-capturing operator. Boundary representations (B-rep) of reconfigurable component designs are immersed into the background non-boundary-fitted fluid mesh, circumventing the labor-intensive and time-consuming boundary-fitted mesh generation process. Thermofluid analysis inside several building configurations is performed. The results demonstrate the potential of our immersogeometric framework in supporting the further investigations of energy-efficient sustainable buildings.

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Abbreviations

\({\mathbf {x}}\) :

Physical coordinate

\(\pmb {\xi }\) :

Parametric coordinate

t :

Time

\({\mathbf {u}}\) :

Velocity of fluid

\(\rho\) :

Density of fluid

p :

Pressure of fluid

\(\mu\) :

Dynamic viscosity of fluid

\({\mathbf {f}}\) :

External body force

T :

Temperature of fluid

\(c_{\mathrm{p}}\) :

Specific heat of fluid

\(\kappa\) :

Heat conductivity of fluid

S :

Heat source

\(\pmb {\sigma }\) :

Cauchy stress rate

\(\pmb {\epsilon }\) :

Strain rate

q :

Heat flux

\({\mathbf {I}}\) :

Identity tensor

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This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21406081) and Natural Science Foundation of the Higher Education Institutions of Jiangsu Province (17KJA530001). K. Hong thanks the support from QingLan Project of Jiangsu Province, China. These supports are gratefully acknowledged.

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Xu, F., Wang, C., Hong, K. et al. Immersogeometric thermal analysis of flows inside buildings with reconfigurable components. J Therm Anal Calorim 143, 4107–4117 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-020-09387-3

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