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Paper Abstract
Growing concerns over the safety of the indoor environment have made the use of sensors
ubiquitous. Sensors that detect chemical and biological warfare agents can offer early warning
of dangerous contaminants. However, current sensor system design is more informed by
intuition and experience rather by systematic design. To develop a sensor system design
methodology, a proper indoor airflow modeling approach is needed. Various indoor airflow
modeling techniques, from complicated computational fluid dynamics approaches to simplified
multi-zone approaches, exist in the literature. In this study, the effects of two airflow modeling
techniques, multi-zone modeling technique and zonal modeling technique, on indoor air
protection sensor system design are discussed. Common building attack scenarios, using a
typical CBW agent, are simulated. Both multi-zone and zonal models are used to predict
airflows and contaminant dispersion. Genetic Algorithm is then applied to optimize the sensor
location and quantity. Differences in the sensor system design resulting from the two airflow
models are discussed for a typical office environment and a large hall environment.
Paper Details
Date Published: 10 April 2007
PDF: 13 pages
Proc. SPIE 6529, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2007, 652911 (10 April 2007); doi: 10.1117/12.716356
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 6529:
Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2007
Masayoshi Tomizuka; Chung-Bang Yun; Victor Giurgiutiu, Editor(s)
PDF: 13 pages
Proc. SPIE 6529, Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2007, 652911 (10 April 2007); doi: 10.1117/12.716356
Show Author Affiliations
Y. Lisa Chen, Drexel Univ. (United States)
Jin Wen, Drexel Univ. (United States)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 6529:
Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2007
Masayoshi Tomizuka; Chung-Bang Yun; Victor Giurgiutiu, Editor(s)
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