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Guest editorial: CFD In Indoor Air
Author(s) -
Sørensen Dan Nørtoft,
Nielsen Peter V.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
indoor air
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.387
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 1600-0668
pISSN - 0905-6947
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0668.2003.00199.x
Subject(s) - computational fluid dynamics , computer science , cfd in buildings , indoor air , quality (philosophy) , excellence , indoor air quality , operations research , architectural engineering , engineering , aerospace engineering , meteorology , physics , quantum mechanics , political science , law
As a leading journal for members of the indoor environment community, Indoor Air strives for excellence in all published papers. For experimental findings or investigations with human subjects, measurement uncertainties and statistical significance of results are routinely reported. The editors of Indoor Air also wish to promote papers using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) as a research tool. For such investigations, there are a number of corresponding measures that qualify the results and ensure quality. For that reason, we have been asked to suggest the minimum amount of information that should be included in CFD related papers submitted to the journal. Naturally, such suggestions will be biased by our personal experience, but we believe that we have covered the major topics of concern. Full assessment of the quality of a given CFD article requires 1) Adequate information pertinent to the governing equations and numerical methods, 2) justified estimates of the expected accuracy of the numerical results. If either of these is omitted, excellent studies may be considered poor and vice versa. Specifically, to ensure that all papers in Indoor Air are of high quality, our suggestion to the editors (and reviewers) is that CFD related articles contain the following information: d The description of the CFD code, boundary/initial conditions, and turbulence model should be detailed enough so that the calculations can be reproduced by another investigator. Existing CFD codes should be fully cited. d Topology and size of the computational grid should be described. d The choice of differencing scheme should be described. Use of differencing schemes that are first order accurate (in space or time) is discouraged and solid justification should be provided if a first order scheme is used. d Influence from grid-dependency should be addressed and, at a minimum, a qualitative estimate of the expected deviations from the exact solution to the governing equations must be given. d The range of y + should be stated and justified in