Reduced-scale building model and numerical investigations to buoyancy-driven natural ventilation

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2404-2413

  Walker, Christine ^a   Tan, Gang ^a,b   Glicksman, Leon ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

CFD; Natural ventilation; Prototype building; Scaled model

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW PATTERNS; BUILDING MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; FLOORPLANS; NATURAL VENTILATION; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; PROTOTYPE BUILDING; SCALED MODELS; WORKING FLUID;

AIR; BUILDINGS; BUOYANCY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; VENTILATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 79960721155     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2011.05.022     Document Type: Article

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