Numerical simulation of air distribution in the consultation room of patients with novel coronavirus

ABSTRACT

The hospital room is the first line of assistance to patients, to ensure the comfort of doctors and patients at the same time, but also to ensure the protection of the personal safety of doctors and patients. For this reason, a good airflow organization helps to reduce the concentration of respiratory particles in the whole space and also creates a comfortable environment. Based on the CFD theory of computational fluid dynamics, ANSYS Fluent software is used to simulate the clinic environment, and four airflow organizations are used as the research objects, and the temperature cloud map, air age, and draft rate (DR) are used as the evaluation indexes, while the particulate matter concentration in the clinic is analyzed, and the 10 main indexes for evaluating the clinic environment are subjected to the principal component analysis algorithm (PCA), the four airflow organizations are comprehensive ranking. Since the traditional questionnaire has a lot of human subjectivity, using the algorithm can effectively compensate for the shortcomings of the questionnaire, and comparing the conclusions derived from the PCA algorithm with the results of the questionnaire can make the conclusions more scientific. The final conclusion is that the airflow organization of the replacement air supply can meet human comfort and air freshness while reducing the concentration of respiratory particulate matter in the clinic environment under the evaluation of various indexes, for which the replacement air supply scheme can provide a theoretical basis and reference for future construction implementation. © 2022 SPIE.