본 연구에서는 청정실 내부에 하나의 작업대가 유동을 방해하고 있으며, 출구 공기덕트가 2개이기 때문에 출구의 평균압력조건은 주어지나 출구속도의 경계조건이 간단히 기술되지 않는 청정실내에서 유동을 예측하고자 하였으며, 수치계산상의 구체 적인 방법을 논하였다. 그 결과로서 작업대 위치 및 각 출구에서의 압력조건에 따른 유동장의 형태 및 각 출구에서의 유출유량 비율등을 논하였다.
The effect of placing a worktable in a vertical laminar flow clean room is invesgiated by a numerical simulation. The model clean room is assumed to be a rectangular square of 2m*2m, in which a worktable of 0.8m long and 0.1m thick is located at 0.7m above the floor. Major parameters are the horizontal position of the table and the inlet flow velocity. The flow is assumed to be laminar throughout the clean room. Navier-Stokes equations with the pressure terms are directly solved by the SIMPLE algorithm. Boundary conditions at the two exits are given in terms of pressure conditions. The flow pattern, pressure loss due to viscous friction, the ratio of flow rates through each exit and pressure imbalance at the exits are calculated. All of the flow characteristics are seen to vary substantially with the location of the table, but are quite insensitive to the inlet flow velocity(Reynolds number). As an example, the flow rate through each exit can very by as much as 30% depending on the location of the table.
