Thermal comfort and indoor air quality are two interdependent metrics that rank highly in occupant complaints. The goal of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems is to provide thermal comfort and acceptable indoor air quality. Having poor indoor air quality has many adverse health effects, including respiratory illnesses, heart disease, and cancer. Poor thermal comfort can lead to reduced performance along with occupants feeling symptoms of sick building syndrome. Therefore, appropriate operation strategies for ventilation systems should be adopted to achieve optimum indoor air quality and thermal comfort and effectively reduce energy consumption.

Computational Fluid Dynamics allows precise forecasting of the performance of a ventilation system by modeling the physical phenomena, ambient conditions, and the detailed geometry of the space.

The Autonomous HVAC CFD App is a cloud-based app for predicting indoor air quality and thermal comfort using flow simulations. The app provides a web browser-based graphical interface that allows users to evaluate the occupant thermal comfort along with indoor air quality for multiple HVAC design configurations and several thermal load scenarios.

During this webinar, you will explore design principles which can help achieve optimum indoor air quality and thermal comfort from ASHRAE Fellow and Distinguished Lecturer Robert Bean. In case you will not be able to attend the live webinar, you can still register and receive the full recording of the session through your email.