W.S.G. Isaac Newton

Brink Climate Systems is a medium-sized company with around 200 employees, located in Staphorst. Their core business is the design of ventilation, heating, cooling and hot water supply solutions for residential buildings. Currently, air-tight houses with much insulation harm the air quality, leading to homeowners finding other ways to increase the air quality in their homes, like opening windows, thereby defying the purpose of these air-tight houses. Brink Climate Systems designs ventilation systems so that air quality can be maintained sustainably by focusing on heat recovery and energy efficiency within their systems.

During my internship at Brink’s R&D department, I looked into their computational fluid dynamics (CFD) workflow. Brink uses CFD to simulate the aerodynamics, thermodynamics, and aeroacoustics within the ventilation systems in STAR-CCM+ and Ansys Fluent. Adjoint-based optimization is a promising method for designing Brink’s foam parts, as it provides a lot of design freedom and low computational costs. This method was not used yet, but by using this method, I managed to design an internal part that divides the airflow equally over different outlets while also reducing the pressure drop.