Is it possible to calculate the age of air in indoor thermal comfort simulation?

is it possible to calculate the age of air in indoor thermal comfort simulation ? it’s a important indexes To evaluate the important indexes of natural ventilation. has anyone tried to do this?

There are OpenFOAM tools which does this. I suggest comfortfoam. It does calculate Mean residence time of air (Mean Age of Air) and more:

https://bitbucket.org/shor-ty/comfortfoam

I haven’t used it myself but @OlivierDambron or @TheodorosGalanos might have used it already.

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Thank you for reminding me about the profile picture, i have already changed it. i am not familiar with programming ,what should i do if i want to use this in butterfly?
thanks again~

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i found the latest version of comfortfoam which is aim at later version of OF

https://bitbucket.org/shor-ty/opencomfort/overview

I was looking for this as well. It seems there is no direct output from OpenFOAM.
But there are a couple posts on cfd-online about this with some post-processing involved: