Validation for CFD Prediction of Mass Transport in an Aircraft Passenger Cabin

Abstract

A joint project was established to validate computational fluid dynamics (CFD) as a quantitative methodology for prediction of the distribution of pathogens released into the environmental control system (ECS)-generated ventilation flow field of an aircraft passenger cabin. Acquisition of the requisite experimental databases for three-dimensional velocity and gaseous contaminant distributions was accomplished in the FAA Civil Aerospace Medical Institute's (CAMI's) Aircraft Environmental Research Facility (AERF). The associated CFD simulations were conducted by the University of Tennessee CFD Laboratory staff, on the resident Beowulf PC cluster and/or the University of Tennessee Innovative Computing Laboratory SiNRG cluster, using both commercial and proprietary CFD computer codes. The results of this CFD validation project are reported herein.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA465914

Entities

People

  • A. J. Baker
  • J. A. Orzechowski
  • K.l. Wong
  • R. P. Garner
  • S. C. Ericson

Organizations

  • Federal Aviation Administration

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Cabins
  • Aircrafts
  • Boundary Layer
  • Cargo Aircraft
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Differential Equations
  • Flow Visualization
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Fluid Flow
  • Geometry
  • Measurement
  • Reliability
  • Research Facilities
  • Three Dimensional
  • Transport Aircraft
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.

Technology Areas

  • Space