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Optimize HVAC Using TAITherm
TAITherm® offers a comprehensive and efficient CAE approach to HVAC system design. By simulating transient environments, both indoor and outdoor, and considering the dynamic interplay between the building, the HVAC system, and its occupants, TAITherm helps you create genuinely comfortable and energy-efficient spaces.
HVAC Design Capabilities
TAITherm empowers you to design, optimize, and validate your HVAC systems before reaching the prototype stage. By simulating real-world conditions, you can:
- Optimize Heating and Cooling Device Placement: Based on building location, orientation, and insulation, determine the ideal size and location for heating and cooling devices.
- Enhance HVAC Device Design: Improve the design of the heating and cooling devices for maximum efficiency.
- Develop Superior Controllers: Design and refine HVAC control systems for optimal performance and energy efficiency in any condition.
Occupant Comfort
TAITherm's Human Thermal Extension enhances HVAC system design by incorporating human thermal comfort directly into your simulations. This allows you to predict occupant comfort under various conditions, including solar loading, humidity, wind, and extreme temperatures. Understanding how design changes affect occupant comfort can accelerate design optimization and fine-tune your system for the best possible user experience. Additionally, you can reduce testing costs by identifying the most critical variables to study, streamlining physical testing efforts, and reducing overall development costs.
Key Benefits of Using TAITherm:
Ensure your design is correct before physical testing. Optimize performance, cooling temperatures, and thermostat behavior. Optimize the effectiveness of your HVAC system by considering the location of components within the room or house and evaluating the efficiency between controllers. TAITherm supports various heating systems, including floor heating, radiant panels, radiators, and forced air. Continue refining your design in the virtual environment even after testing through virtual optimization. Improve energy usage by optimizing system performance early in the design phase.
Extensions
3D Thermal Simulation Software
Exchange complexity for clarity. TAIThermTM is a 3D thermal simulation software that predicts temperatures using transient or steady-state analysis. TAIThermTM thermal analysis software is as easy to use as it is powerful. It solves for solar and thermal radiation, convection, and conduction including ever-changing environments. TAIThermTM removes the burden of complicated thermal simulations and ensures that your design will function optimally in real-world scenarios.
RapidFlowTM is a 3D flow solver integrated with TAIThermTM and MuSESTM designed for convective heat transfer analysis. RapidFlowTM works on complex 3D geometries, has minimal setup time with automatic meshing, and is a powerful transient solver that rapidly calculates accurate thermal results. This combination provides automated thermal-fluid coupling within a single software solution, streamlining your workflow and increasing efficiency.
Beyond Comfortable
Our Human Thermal Extension is the state-of-the-art technology for predicting human thermal comfort, safety, and effectiveness. It operates within our thermal analysis software, TAIThermTM, to comprehensively simulate human thermal sensation and thermoregulation under transient and asymmetric environmental conditions. Users can simulate all thermoregulatory responses based on many factors, including activity level. We have developed a comprehensive library of standard human models in various poses, including female and male physiologies. We have also developed an extensive clothing database for rapid model setup.