Numerical investigations of buoyancy-driven natural ventilation in a simple atrium building and its effect on the thermal comfort conditions

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue , 2012, Pages 358-372

  Hussain, Shafqat ^a   Oosthuizen, Patrick H ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atrium building; Atrium designs; Comfort analysis; Numerical investigations

Indexed keywords

ATRIUM BUILDINGS; CFD SOLVER; COMFORT ANALYSIS; COMFORT CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMIC (CFD); DESIGN PARAMETERS; DESIGN VARIABLES; DISCRETE TRANSFER RADIATION MODELS; ELSEVIER; GEOMETRIC CONFIGURATIONS; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; INDOOR THERMAL COMFORT; NATURAL VENTILATION; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PREDICTED MEAN VOTE; REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES; THERMAL COMFORT INDEX; THERMAL CONDITION;

BUOYANCY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL COMFORT; TURBULENCE MODELS; VENTILATION;

BUILDINGS;

EID: 84858737378     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2012.02.025     Document Type: Article

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