Wind tunnel analysis of artificial substrates used in active living walls for indoor environment conditioning in Mediterranean buildings

Building and Environment

Volumn 51, Issue , 2012, Pages 370-378

  Franco, A ^a   Fernandez Canero R ^a   Perez Urrestarazu L ^a   Valera, D L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Active living wall; Evaporative cooling; Pressure drop; Saturation efficiency; Substrates; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LIVING; AIR FLOW; AIR SPEED; ARTIFICIAL SUBSTRATES; COOLING EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY LEVELS; EVAPORATIVE COOLING; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; HIGH WATER; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; LOW-SPEED WIND TUNNEL; SUBSTRATE SURFACE; SYNTHETIC SUBSTRATES; WATER CONSUMPTION; WATER FLOWS; WATER RETENTION CAPACITY; WATER VOLUMES; WIND TUNNEL ANALYSIS;

AIR; COOLING; EFFICIENCY; EVAPORATIVE COOLING SYSTEMS; FLOW OF WATER; HYDRAULICS; POLYPROPYLENES; PRESSURE DROP; VEGETATION; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS); WATER SUPPLY; WIND TUNNELS;

SUBSTRATES;

AIRFLOW; BUILDING; COOLING; EVAPORATION; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PRESSURE DROP; SATURATION; SUBSTRATE; VEGETATION; WALL; WATER FLOW; WATER RETENTION; WATER USE; WETTING; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 84855396806     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2011.12.004     Document Type: Article

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