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During its operations, airflow can become unsteady due to the variable operating modes of the borer miner, the switching on and off of its motor cooling fans, and the movement of a shuttle car transporting ore. While steady ventilation in a dead-end working with a borer miner has been previously studied, the specific features of air microclimate parameter distribution in more complex and realistic unsteady scenarios remain unexplored. Our experimental studies reveal that over time, air velocity and, particularly, air temperature experience significant fluctuations. In this study, we develop and parameterize a mathematical model and perform a series of numerical simulations of unsteady heat and mass transfer in a dead-end working. These simulations account for the switching on and off of the borer miner\u2019s fans and the movement of the shuttle car. The numerical model is calibrated using data from our experiments conducted in a potash mine. The analysis of the first factor is carried out by examining two extreme scenarios under steady-state ventilation conditions, while the second factor is analyzed within a fully unsteady framework using a dynamic mesh approach in the ANSYS Fluent 2021 R2. The numerical results demonstrate that the borer miner\u2019s operating mode notably impacts the velocity and temperature fields, with a twofold decrease in maximum velocity near the cabin after the shuttle car departed and a temperature difference of about 1\u20131.5 \u00b0C between extreme scenarios in the case of forcing ventilation. The unsteady simulations using the dynamic mesh approach revealed that temperature variations were primarily caused by the borer miner\u2019s cooling system, while the moving shuttle car generated short-term aerodynamic oscillations.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/computation13040085","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,3,25]],"date-time":"2025-03-25T10:53:54Z","timestamp":1742900034000},"page":"85","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Numerical Analysis of the Impact of Variable Borer Miner Operating Modes on the Microclimate in Potash Mine Working Areas"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Lev","family":"Levin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Mining Institute of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 614007 Perm, Russia"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5200-7931","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mikhail","family":"Semin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Mining Institute of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 614007 Perm, Russia"}]},{"given":"Stanislav","family":"Maltsev","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Mining Institute of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 614007 Perm, Russia"}]},{"given":"Roman","family":"Luzin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Mining Institute of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 614007 Perm, Russia"},{"name":"Physics and Mathematics Institute, Perm State University, 614007 Perm, Russia"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0002-7960-8344","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Andrey","family":"Sukhanov","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Mining Institute of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 614007 Perm, Russia"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,3,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"101666","DOI":"10.1016\/j.aei.2022.101666","article-title":"Machine learning algorithm selection for windage alteration fault diagnosis of mine ventilation system","volume":"53","author":"Liu","year":"2022","journal-title":"Adv. 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