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Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology 26 (2011) 189–200 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology journal homepage: /locate/tust A practical use of CFD for ventilation of underground works Isidro Diego ⇑, Susana Torno, Javier Toraño, Mario Menéndez, Malcolm Gent School of Mines of Oviedo, University of Oviedo, Spain a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Any underground work of a minimum length has associated a study of a ventilation system. The tradi- Received 18 March 2009 tional way to calculate these systems requires the calculation of the air losses all over the installation Received in revised form 1 June 2010 in order to select an adequate group of fans. This paper calculates the losses in 138 situations of circular Accepted 25 August 2010 tunnels (varying tunnel diameter, air velocity and surface characteristics), by both traditional and CFD Available online 24 September 2010 (computational fluid dynamics) means. The results of both methods are compared and adequate correla- tion has been observed, with CFD values constantly a 17% below the values calculated by traditional Keywords: means. The paper deals with the main problems commonly encountered in the CFD use, meshing and tur- Pressure drop Air losses bulence, and shows guidance on the practical use of this numerical method. There are also shown the CFD