A study of wind and buoyancy driven flows through commercial wind towers

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1784-1791

  Hughes, Ben Richard ^a   Mak, Cheuk Ming ^b  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Buoyancy; CFD; Indoor ventilation; Urban environment; Wind tower

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; TOWERS; URBAN PLANNING; VENTILATION;

BUOYANCY DRIVEN FLOWS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS MODELING; DENSE URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; INDOOR VENTILATIONS; INTERNAL HEAT SOURCE; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; WIND TOWERS;

BUOYANCY;

EID: 79956365069     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2011.03.022     Document Type: Article

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