Wind-driven natural ventilation in a low-rise building: A Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel study

Building and Environment

Volumn 59, Issue , 2013, Pages 275-289

  Tecle, Amanuel ^a   Bitsuamlak, Girma T ^a,b   Jiru, Teshome E ^c  

^a The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c OREGON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discharge coefficient; Internal pressure; Low rise; Natural ventilation; Room partitioning; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

ANGLES OF ATTACK; BOUNDARY LAYER WIND TUNNEL; CROSS-VENTILATION; DISCHARGE COEFFICIENTS; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; INDOOR AIR QUALITY; INTERNAL PRESSURES; INTERNAL VOLUME; LOW-RISE; LOW-RISE BUILDINGS; NATURAL VENTILATION; OPENING RATIO; PASSIVE BUILDINGS; ROOM-PARTITIONING; SIDE WALLS; SINGLE WALL; SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION; VENTILATION RATE;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTS; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; PRESSURE DROP; VENTILATION; WIND TUNNELS;

WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

AIR QUALITY; BOUNDARY LAYER; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MULTISTOREY BUILDING; PRESSURE; VENTILATION; WIND FORCING; WIND TUNNEL; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; INDOOR AIR;

EID: 84870438018     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2012.08.026     Document Type: Article

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