Natural ventilation of light well in high-rise apartment building

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 427-434

  Kotani, Hisashi ^a   Satoh, Ryuji ^b   Yamanaka, Toshio ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

High rise apartment building; Light well; Stack effect; Wind tunnel test; Wind induced ventilation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EXHAUST GASES; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; VENTILATION; WATER HEATERS; WIND TUNNELS;

WIND-INDUCED VENTILATION;

BUILDINGS;

EID: 0037401854     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-7788(02)00166-4     Document Type: Article

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