RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Egert, Josef
A1 Frana, Karel
T1 Investigation of Airflow inside Floor Convector and Its Surrounding
JF Manufacturing Technology Journal
YR 2015
VO 15
IS 6
SP 973
OP 977
DO 10.21062/ujep/x.2015/a/1213-2489/MT/15/6/973
UL https://journalmt.com/artkey/mft-201506-0003.php
AB The article describes experimental and numerical investigation of airflow inside the floor convector. Analysis was divided to two parts. First part was airflow visualization. This part was realized in two areas. At first the visualization was realized in the area between a fan outlet and a heat exchanger inlet using a continual laser and a video camera. Then the visualization was realized in the region above the heat exchanger outlet with a Particle image velocimetry. At last the flow behavior in domain between the fan outlet and the floor convector outlet was analyzed with a numerical simulation. Commercial software ANSYS Fluent in version 15.0 was used. Results from the numerical simulation and the experiments were compared and the flow behavior was examined.