
where:
m
ik
is the mass of tracer gas k in zone i;
I
ik
is the injection rate of tracer gas k in (or just upwind of ) zone i;
C
jk
is the concentration of tracer k in zone j;
C
ik
is the concentration of tracer gas k in zone i;
Q
ij
is the airflow rate from node j to node i.
An extension of assumption 1 above is implicit in this equation, that is:
4 The airflow entering a zone does not modify the homogeneity of the concen-
tration of tracer gases in that zone, i.e., an immediate and perfect mixing is
assumed.
If there are N tracers or N different sets of measurements using a single tracer
injected at various rates in the various zones, Equations 1.23 and 1.24 above
give a full set of N(N þ 1) equations. Therefore, this allows the N(N þ 1) flows
between all the zones, including the outdoor air as the zone zero to be determined.
There are two methods to transform this set of equations before solving. Since they
each have various advantages and disadvantages, they are both described below.
Global system of equations
The most common technique to be found in the literature (Sinden, 1978;
Sherman et al., 1980; Perera, 1982; Sandberg, 1984) is the following.
Let us express by Q
ii
the sum of all the flows entering the zone i:
Q
ii
¼
X
N
j ¼0
Q
ij
ð1
ij
Þð1:25Þ
Using the above notation and taking apart the flows coming from outside,
Equation 1.24 becomes:
M
i
dC
ik
dt
¼ I
ik
þ
X
N
j ¼1
C
kj
Q
ij
ð1
ij
ÞþC
0k
Q
i0
C
ik
Q
ii
ð1:26Þ
Since any change in the outdoor level of tracer gas concentrations, C
0k
, will be
negligible, these leve ls are the base levels of tracer gas concentrations anywhere
else. In this case the tracer mass balances expressed in Equation 1.26 can be
written in a matrix form:
d
dt
½M CþQ C ¼ I ð1:27Þ
where each row of the N N matrices M C, Q C and I corresponds to a zone
and each column to a given tracer gas. More specifically:
M is a diagonal matrix whose elements are the masses of air contained in each
zone:
m
i
¼
i
V
i
or M ¼ V
where is the diagonal matrix of the air densities in the zones,
i
, and V the
diagonal matrix of the volumes of the zones, V
i
.
8 Ventilation and Airflow in Buildings
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