A numerical study of the effect of thermal mass on the transient thermal performance of a simple three storied atrium building

ASME 2012 Heat Transfer Summer Conf. Collocated with the ASME 2012 Fluids Engineering Div. Summer Meeting and the ASME 2012 10th Int. Conf. on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels, HT 2012

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 943-952

  Hussain, Shafqat ^a   Oosthuizen, Patrick H ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atrium building; Buoyancy driven natural ventilation; SST k turbulence model; Transient CFD simulations

Indexed keywords

ATRIUM BUILDINGS; BUILDING CONSTRUCTION; CFD SIMULATIONS; DISCRETE TRANSFER RADIATION MODELS; EXTERNAL INSULATIONS; NATURAL VENTILATION; TRANSIENT THERMAL CONDITIONS; UNSTEADY REYNOLDS AVERAGED NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS;

BUILDINGS; BUOYANCY; EQUATIONS OF STATE; FLOW RATE; HEAT TRANSFER; MICROCHANNELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SUN; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL INSULATION; TURBULENCE MODELS; VENTILATION; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 84892650495     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/HT2012-58132     Document Type: Conference Paper

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