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Model Development and Validation for Particle Release Experiments in a Two-story Office Building

Model Development and Validation for Particle Release Experiments in a Two-story Office Building

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General Science

ISBN10: 149615696X
ISBN13: 9781496156969
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 7 2014
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.21 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
Whole-building airflow and contaminant transport modeling has a potentially important role in the development of contaminant sampling strategies in response to the airborne release of chemical or biological agents . The effectiveness of these strategies relies on the ability of the selected sampling locations to adequately characterize the levels of contamination throughout an exposed facility to a desired level of confidence in the sampled results. The Department of Homeland Security has sponsored a series of multi-agency exercises, during which contamination experiments were performed to gauge the confidence that could be obtained by various sampling strategies as well as the effectiveness of various sampling methods in a real-world setting. These experiments are very resource intensive and time-consuming, limiting the number of experiments that can be reasonably performed. Building simulation can be used to perform virtual experiments that would allow more tests to be performed under a much larger set of building operational and environmental configurations. However, in order for the simulations to be useful, the building models need to provide realistic results with a high level of confidence. The purpose of this report is to describe a simulation validation effort based on measurements of contaminant levels performed during the aforementioned exercises.

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