Natural ventilation of buildings due to buoyancy assisted by wind: Investigating cross ventilation with computational and laboratory simulation

Building and Environment

Volumn 66, Issue , 2013, Pages 104-119

  Stavridou, Anastasia D ^a   Prinos, Panagiotis E ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Computational simulation; Laboratory simulation; Natural ventilation of buildings

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION; DYNAMIC SIMILARITIES; EXPERIMENTAL MODELS; LABORATORY SIMULATION; NATURAL VENTILATION; UNSTEADY REYNOLDS-AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES; VARIABLE DISTANCES;

BUOYANCY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ETHANOL; FROUDE NUMBER; LABORATORIES; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TURBULENCE MODELS; VENTILATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

BUILDING; BUOYANCY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ETHANOL; FROUDE NUMBER; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; VENTILATION; WIND;

EID: 84878168275     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2013.04.011     Document Type: Article

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