Wind driven natural ventilation through multiple windows of a building: A computational approach

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 45, Issue , 2012, Pages 317-325

  Bangalee, M Z I ^a   Lin, S Y ^a   Miau, J J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

CFD; Energy saving system; Natural ventilation; RNG k turbulence model

Indexed keywords

AIR MOVEMENT; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CFD MODELS; COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; ENERGY SAVING SYSTEM; ENERGY SAVING SYSTEMS; INDOOR AIR; MEAN VELOCITIES; MULTIPLE WINDOWS; NATURAL VENTILATION; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; PRESSURE COEFFICIENTS; RENORMALIZATION GROUP; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); VENTILATION SYSTEMS; WIND VELOCITIES;

AIR; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; GLOBAL WARMING; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TURBULENCE MODELS; VELOCITY;

VENTILATION;

EID: 84855220982     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2011.11.025     Document Type: Article

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