Airflow assessment in cross-ventilated buildings with operable façade elements

Building and Environment

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 266-279

  Karava, P ^a   Stathopoulos, T ^b   Athienitis, A K ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Airflow measurements; Cross ventilation; Natural ventilation; Particle image velocimetry; Wind tunnel experiments

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW MEASUREMENTS; CROSS-VENTILATION; NATURAL VENTILATION; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENTS;

AERODYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; PRESSURE CONTROL; VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VENTILATION; WIND TUNNELS;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

AIRFLOW; BUILDING; COOLING; DESIGN; MODELING; VENTILATION; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 77956229936     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2010.07.022     Document Type: Article

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