Visualized flow structure around and inside of one-sided wind-catchers

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 55, Issue , 2012, Pages 545-552

  Esfeh, M Kazemi ^a   Dehghan, A A ^a   Manshadi, M Dehghan ^a   Mohagheghian, S ^a  

^a YAZD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Natural ventilation; Smoke flow visualization; Wind catcher

Indexed keywords

CURVED ROOFS; FLOW CHARACTERISTIC; FLOW FEATURES; INDUCED AIRFLOW; INTERNAL SURFACES; NATURAL VENTILATION; PASSIVE VENTILATION; PRESSURE COEFFICIENTS; SMOKE VISUALIZATION; WIND CATCHERS; WIND FLOW;

ROOFS; VENTILATION;

FLOW VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84870617764     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2012.09.015     Document Type: Article

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