Study of airflow in a washroom

(w/o fixtures) with exhaust fan

Mani Shankar Yadav, M.Tech.
Dept. of Aerospace Engineering
IIT Bombay
 5ft

Geometry
• XZ plane : rectangle (9ft. X 5ft.) 0.82ft
• Extrude 2ft
2ft
• Sketch on planes for door and 5.3ft
face split 10ft
7ft
• Do similar task for exhaust fan

Note: Plz ignore the fixtures (toilet seat and washbasin for now)

9ft

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Meshing
Material: Fluid
Element size: 0.05m
Nodes : 153130
Elements : 870582

Named selections:
i) Door
ii) Exhaust fan
iii) Walls

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Setup
• 3D, double precision
• General : Steady, pressure based
• Viscous model : k- epsilon, realizable, enhanced wall treatment

• Solution method : Coupled

• Monitors: Residuals
• Run calculations: 1000 iterations

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Setup (contd…)
Boundary conditions:
1) Inlets:
• Door pressure inlet
• Exhaust fan  velocity inlet
-1.5m/s (outside of domain)

2) Walls : Stationary, No slip

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Results (post processing)
Velocity contours
ZX plane at Y = 1.5m (from floor)

Due to deduction in the

range of velocity magnitude

Higher velocity zone.

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Results (contd…) Velocity contours
XY plane at Z = 0.762m (mid plane)

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