Natural ventilation assessment in typical open and semi-open urban environments under various wind directions

Building and Environment

Volumn 70, Issue , 2013, Pages 318-333

  Hang, Jian ^a   Luo, Zhiwen ^b   Sandberg, Mats ^c   Gong, Jian ^d  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

^d NANCHANG HANGKONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Age of air; CFD simulations; Natural ventilation; Purging flow rate; Semi open street roof; Wind tunnel experiment

Indexed keywords

AGE OF AIR; ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; CFD SIMULATIONS; NATURAL VENTILATION; REYNOLDS STRESS MODELS; URBAN CANOPY LAYERS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT;

AIR; ASPECT RATIO; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW RATE; ROOFS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

VENTILATION;

CANOPY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; TURBULENCE; URBAN AREA; VENTILATION; WIND DIRECTION; WIND TUNNEL;

EID: 84885139504     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2013.09.002     Document Type: Article

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