Numerical Investigation of Particle Deposition in a Room using Large Eddy Simulation based on Lattice Boltzmann Method

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Hasan Sajjadi ¹
• Mazyar Salmanzadeh ²
• Goodarz Ahmadi ³
• Saeed Jafari ²

¹ University of Bojnord

² Shahid Bahonar

³ Clarkson

10.22067/fum-mech.v30i2.68789

Abstract

In this paper the Multi Relaxation Time Lattice Boltzmann Method in conjunction with the Large Eddy Simulation model was used to study the particle deposition in a room  with various diameters (10nm-10µm)and the effect of buoyancy, drag and Brownian forces to particle deposition on the different walls of the room has been investigated.  The sub-grid scale turbulence effects were simulated through a shear-improved Smagorinsky model. To simulate the particle deposition in the room, the particle injection process was initiated with 144 particles injected uniformly at the inlet with the same velocity as the airflow at every 0.05s; particle injection was stopped after 30s. Therefore, a total of 86400 particles were injected into the room. The present simulation results for the airflow showed good agreement with the experimental data and the earlier numerical results. The simulated results for particle dispersion and deposition showed that the numbers of deposited particles on the walls increases by augmentation of the time. When the particle injection started the concentration in the inlet jet region is more than other zones and that increases in the region far from the inlet by time. Present results will be interesting for designing air condition systems in the office and hospitals rooms.

Keywords

• Lattice Boltzmann method
• large eddy simulation
• Particle Deposition
• Shear Improved Smagorinsky Model

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