The safety of the coal production process, which in the coming years will continue to be one of the basic energy resources in many countries worldwide, has a significant impact on its efficiency. The random character of many hazardous phenomena accompanying this process requires the application of both modern and safe methods to study these phenomena. Model studies based on the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) method are known to have such features. They enable the analysis of very complex and hazardous phenomena, which are hard or even impossible to investigate with the use of other methods. Therefore, this article focuses on the analysis of the state of the art in terms of the Computational Fluid Dynamics application in research on ventilation safety during underground hard coal mining. It was assumed that CFD-based studies may significantly improve the safety of the mining production process. For this purpose, a systematic literature review was carried out, which – according to the adopted methodology – involved four research questions. The review included scientific publications (articles) contained in the two most prestigious databases, i.e., the Web of Science and the Scopus. In accordance with the adopted search criteria, articles that used the Computational Fluid Dynamics method and focused on ventilation safety during underground coal mining were selected. The meta-analysis of these data made it possible to identify seven thematic areas undertaken in these publications. The following paper presents a list of articles assigned to these groups with selected items being discussed. On the basis of the conducted research, comprehensive answers to the research questions were provided. The results systematize the knowledge of CFD application in research on ventilation safety in mining. Also, they are a valuable source of information for future researchers and engineers concerned with the safety of the mining production process. Moreover, potential directions of further research in the field of possible Computational Fluid Dynamics applications were indicated to improve the safety of the process in question.

煤炭生产过程的安全性在未来几年将继续成为全球许多国家的基本能源之一，其安全性对其效率产生重大影响。伴随此过程的许多危险现象的随机性要求应用现代和安全的方法来研究这些现象。已知基于计算流体动力学（CFD）方法的模型研究具有此类功能。它们可以分析非常复杂和危险的现象，而使用其他方法很难或什至不可能进行研究。因此，本文将重点介绍计算流体动力学在地下硬煤开采通风安全性研究中的应用现状。假定基于CFD的研究可以显着提高采矿生产过程的安全性。为此目的，进行了系统的文献综述，根据所采用的方法，该文献涉及四个研究问题。审查包括两个最负盛名的数据库（即Web of Science和Scopus）中包含的科学出版物（文章）。根据采用的搜索标准，选择了使用计算流体力学方法并着重于地下煤矿开采过程中通风安全的文章。通过对这些数据进行荟萃分析，可以确定这些出版物中进行的七个主题领域。以下论文列出了分配给这些组的文章清单，并讨论了选定的项目。在进行的研究的基础上，提供了有关研究问题的全面答案。该结果系统化了CFD在采矿通风安全研究中的应用知识。同样，它们对于将来关注采矿生产过程安全性的研究人员和工程师也是宝贵的信息来源。此外，指出了在可能的计算流体动力学应用领域中进一步研究的潜在方向，以提高所讨论过程的安全性。