Natural ventilation driven by periodic gusting of wind

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 679, Issue , 2011, Pages 58-76

  Mott, Richard W ^a   Woods, Andrew W ^a  

^a BP Institute   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

convection; plumes thermals; turbulent convection

Indexed keywords

HEAT CONVECTION; LABORATORIES; MIXING; VENTILATION;

APPROXIMATE ANALYTIC SOLUTIONS; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; ENTRAINMENT COEFFICIENTS; FULL NUMERICAL SOLUTION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NATURAL VENTILATION; PLUMES/THERMALS; TURBULENT CONVECTION;

PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS;

ASYMMETRY; BUOYANCY; COLD AIR; CONVECTION; DILUTION; ENTRAINMENT; GUST; NUMERICAL MODEL; TURBULENT FLOW; VENTILATION; WIND;

EID: 80052155059     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2011.122     Document Type: Article

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