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Nowadays, cleanrooms have a growing application in a broad range of industries, e.g. pharmacy, aerospace, nuclear energy and electronics. So, it seems that numerical modeling of airflow in such spaces becomes more essential. As computational fluid dynamics has become a powerful tool for indoor airflow studies, in this research, influence of effective parameters on the flow and concentration distribution in cleanrooms has been investigated by the use of CFD. To do so, aerosol flow in a 3-D cleanroom has been numerically modeled by Fluent 6.3, using Euler-Euler approach and standard k- turbulence model. Comparison between numerical results and experimental data shows a considerably good... 

When a fluid moves inside another fluid while they have unequal density, a phenomena occurs which is called density (or gravity) current. Therefore density difference and gravity are key factors of density current generation. Due to application in engineering and geology, it is essential to investigate and analyze the above mentioned phenomena. Dam reservoirs, sandstorm in deserts, snow slide onset and falling, ash clouds produced during eruption of a volcano, and spreading of density current due to the collapsing of reservoirs are some examples of gravity current. There are lots of methods to simulate the turbulence of density current like DNS or RANS. But DNS has high computational cost... 

Turbidity currents are produced when a particle laden fluid flows under the lighter ambient fresh fluid. The streaming of particle laden fluid is called turbidity current and this kind of currents is the major mechanism for sediment transportations in lakes and oceans. In the present research, the main concentration is on the effect of obstacle on the behavior of turbidity current. A series of laboratory experiments were carried out with various obstacle heights, shapes and different inlet densimetric Froude numbers. In each experiment, velocity profiles upstream and downstream of the obstacle were measured, using an ADV (Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter). Kaolin was used as the suspended... 

Density currents as a particular form of stratified fluid motion in nature have attracted the interest of many researchers in the past decades. These flows are formed whenever a fluid with specific density begins to move through another fluid with different density called ambient fluid. Prediction of propagation of turbulent density currents, especially because of their remarkable influence on the environment, is one of the researcher’s interests in geophysics and engineering. Density currents have a lot of applications in industry and nature. Sand storm in deserts, turbidity currents in oceans and avalanches are natural examples and leakage of dense gas into the atmosphere due to reservoir...