Examine thermal comfort inside the indoor swimming pool through various configuration of inlet and outlet vents

Md Azmatullah; B. Suresh; Shivendra Singh

doi:10.69968/ijisem.2025v4i146-55

Authors

Md Azmatullah Research Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Corporate Institute Of Science & Technology, Bhopal
B. Suresh Prof. & HOD, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Corporate Institute Of Science & Technology, Bhopal
Shivendra Singh Asst Prof., Department of Mechanical Engineering, Corporate Institute Of Science & Technology, Bhopal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.69968/ijisem.2025v4i146-55

Keywords:

Spectator, Thermal comfort, Ventilation, Computational fluid dynamics, Indoor swimming pool, etc

Abstract

Research is now focused on numerically evaluating how occupational level affects pool temperature in a big competition pool. Ansys Fluent, a program for "Computational Fluid Dynamics" (CFD), was used to carry out the experiment. In this study five configuration of inlet and outlet are consider in the indoor swimming pool. The study only focus on achieve the thermal comfort in the spectator area and pool area without increasing and decreasing the volume temperature of indoor swimming pool. In case 2, changing the position of outlet there is minor changes in the volume temperature as compare to case 1. In case 3, case 4, and case 5 decreasing the temperature at spectator area of 10%, 11%, and 14% as compare to case 1 respectively.

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