Airflow Simulation

Airflow Simulation is at the heart of what we do here at our Singapore office in BroadTech Engineering. In today’s extremely competitive market condition where customer demands and requirements are ever increasing, the performance and energy efficiency of engineering design is gaining more importance and attention than ever. Because of this, it is important for companies to pursue on achieving breakthrough energy innovation as incremental improvements today is clearly not enough Energy-related priorities of engineering design includes

Airflow simulation has assumed a more important role when driving engineering design innovation beyond incremental improvements to achieve breakthrough innovation. It has made it possible engineering design development teams to make quick and confident engineering decisions and at the same time allows impractical ideas to be identified and eliminated early on in the development process

Featured Case Studies

Particle Dispersion Analysis

The harbour facility uses an industrial storage system consisting of arrays of carbon piles that generate dirt and air contamination from carbon particles.Our client decided to invest in a series of windscreens to redirection these particles and avoid problems in a nearby refinery. A windscreen was designed to guarantee that bigger particles didn´t fly off the pile and those smallest ones were carried away definitively with the wind (instead of landing on the ground).

Shorten Design Testing Time

The use of Airflow simulation through CFD modeling allows companies to accurately evaluate of vehicle aerodynamics without the need for actual physical aerodynamics testing. This use of engineering simulation can help to save cost as physical airflow simulation is cost prohibitive and time-consuming where it typically involves the use of large wind tunnels and advanced operating instrumentation. The use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) Airflow simulation helps development engineers to significantly shorten the time required in evaluating new aerodynamic designs. In addition, this use of CFD simulation helps companies and businesses to produce industry standard benchmarks inefficient aerodynamic design and meet with industry performance requirements at a much faster pace.

Applications of Airflow Simulation

Companies today are leveraging the power of engineering airflow simulation and computational fluid analysis to overcome engineering product development challenges and Push the boundary in enhancing greater energy performance.
These valuable application areas of Airflow Simulation includes:

1. Optimize Airflow in Building indoor Environment

Simulating air flow in any indoor environment, from a data center room to an auditorium hall, helps design engineers significantly reduce energy and expenses required for heating and cooling to ensure the thermal comfort of its occupants.

1. Ensure Occupant Indoor Thermal Comfort

Steady-state fluid dynamics analysis and airflow simulations can be used to design and create an even temperature distribution across the entire indoor space. This helps to ensure that the thermal comfort of people in building indoor environment while being compliant fulfilling environmental requirements associated with sustainable building designs.

2. Optimize Air Delivery Distribution

Airflow modeling (IL: Airflow modeling) simulation is able to analyze the flow performance of the existing and proposed HVAC air distribution system.
Base on the HVAC simulation data obtained, we are able to ensure optimal distribution of air diffusers, air supply outlets, ceiling flow bars throughout the different levels of buildings needed to ensure efficient air delivery in large or High ceiling indoor spaces.
Having an even distribution of air helps to improve the temperature distribution at various levels of the building indoor space. This is achieved through the Refinement of Parameters in the air distribution system such as Speed of airflow supply and angle of the direction of the air supply inlet.

2. Improve Aerodynamic design

Airflow fluid dynamic simulation can be used to optimize the design of transportation vehicles, such as planes and cars by reducing its aerodynamic drag.
From a business perspective, an aerodynamic improvements aerodynamics can help to offer significant advantages, such as

1. Maximizing Energy and Fuel Efficiency

Significantly cut down on fuel consumption and costs

2. Improve Business Profitability

Protect business profit margins. Improve energy efficiency of planes and transportation trucks can help commercial airlines and trucking companies to satisfy new fuel economy standards and environmental protection regulatory policies.

3. Thermal Optimization of Engineering Product Design

Airflow simulation plays a crucial role in the Thermal optimization of engineering designs. An engineering product that is optimized for thermal cooling can help to enhance its performance & Safety.
Airflow Simulation provides a way to identify and address any thermal issues at the early-stage before individual components are brought together into an integrated system.
In the case of consumer electronics products development, such CFD airflow simulation has been instrumental in helping companies to prevent an issue of internal overheating, which otherwise would have lead to costly market recalls and adverse incidents at the consumer.

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