Using computational tools to factor wind into architectural environment design

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1197-1209

  Chen, Qingyan ^a  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

Architectural environment design; Computational fluid dynamics; Wind

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; SPEED; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; THERMAL EFFECTS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VENTILATION; WIND EFFECTS;

ARCHITECTURAL ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; BUILDING DESIGN; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; NATURAL VENTILATION;

BUILDINGS;

EID: 5044222310     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2003.10.013     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (24)

1. N. Lechner, Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Design Methods for Architects, 2nd ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000.
2. M. Bottema, Wind climate and urban geometry, Ph.D. Thesis, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 1980.
3. G.Th. Visser, Windhindercriteria: een litertuuronderzoek naar en voorstellen voor het hanteren van unforme TNO-windhindercriteria (in Dutch), Report 80-02746, IMET-TNO, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, 1980.
4. W. Marion, K. Urban, User's Manual for TMY2s Typical Meteorological Years, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado. http://www.rredc.nrel.gov/solar/old_data/nsrdb/tmy2/ , 1995.
5. NOAA, Climate Atlas of US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 1983.
6. S. Chandra, P. Fairey, M. Houston, A Handbook for Designing Ventilated Buildings, FSEC-CR-93-83. Florida Solar Energy Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, 1983.
7. F. Allard, Natural Ventilation in Buildings: a Design Handbook, James & James Ltd., London, 1998.
8. CIBSE Natural Ventilation in Non-domestic Buildings, Applications Manual AM10, The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, London, 1997.
9. Linden P.F. The fluid mechanics of natural ventilation. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. 31:1999;201-238.
10. Olson D.A., Glicksman L.R., Ferm H.M. Steady-state natural convection in empty and partitioned enclosures at high Rayleigh numbers. Transactions of the ASME Journal Heat Transfer. 112:1990;640-647.
11. Vickery B.J., Karakatsanis C. External pressure distributions and induced internal ventilation flow in low-rise industrial and domestic structures. ASHRAE Transactions. 98(2):1987;2198-2213.
12. Q. Chen, L.R. Glicksman, Application of computational fluid dynamics for indoor air quality studies, in: J.D. Spengler, J.M. Samet, J.F. McCarthy (Eds.), Indoor Air Quality Handbook, vol. 59, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 2000, pp. 1-22.
13. Chen Q. Computational fluid dynamics for HVAC: successes and failures. ASHRAE Transactions. 103(1):1997;178-187.
14. Murakami S. Overview of turbulence models applied in CWE-1997. Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics. 74-76:1998;1-24.
15. CHAM PHOENICS Version 3.3, CHAM Ltd., London, UK, 2000.
16. Launder B.E., Spalding D.B. The numerical computation of turbulent flows. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Energy. 3:1974;269-289.
17. S.V. Patankar, Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow, Taylor & Francis, 1980.
18. Y. Jiang, H. Xing, C. Straub, Q. Chen, A.M. Scott, L.R. Glicksman, L.K. Norford, Design natural ventilation in buildings and outdoor comfort around buildings by an architect and engineer team with a CFD program, in: Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on HVAC, ISHVAC '99, vol. 2, Shenzhen, China, 1999, pp. 591-601.
19. Y. Jiang, Tsinghua University, China, 1999 (private communications).
20. Carrilho-da-Graca G., Chen Q., Glicksman L.R., Norford L.K. Simulation of wind driven ventilative cooling systems for an apartment building in Beijing and Shanghai. Energy and Buildings. 34(1):2002;1-11.
21. Z. Zhai, S.D. Hamilton, J. Huang, C. Allocca, N. Kobayashi, Q. Chen, Integration of indoor and outdoor airflow study for natural ventilation design using CFD, in: Proceedings of the 21st AIVC Annual Conference on Innovations in Ventilation Technology, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2000.
22. Allocca C., Chen Q., Glicksman L.R. Design analysis of single-sided natural ventilation. Energy and Buildings. 35:2003;785-795.
23. J.C. Phaff, W.F. de Gids, J.A. Ton, D.V. van der Ree, L.L.M. Schijndel, The ventilation of buildings: investigation of the consequences of opening one window on the internal climate of a room. Report C 448, TNO Institute for Environmental Hygiene and Health Technology (IMG-TNO), Delft, The Netherlands, 1980.
24. F. Moore, Environment Control Systems: Heating Cooling Lighting, McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, 1993.