Wind tunnel and CFD study of the natural ventilation performance ofa commercial multi-directional wind tower

Building and Environment

Volumn 80, Issue , 2014, Pages 71-83

  Calautit, John Kaiser ^a   Hughes, Ben Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CFD; Natural ventilation; Rapid prototyping; Wind tower; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RAPID PROTOTYPING; TESTING; TOWERS; VENTILATION; VISUALIZATION; WIND; WIND STRESS; WIND TUNNELS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS ANALYSIS; GEOMETRICAL REPRESENTATION; NATURAL VENTILATION; PRESSURE COEFFICIENTS; SMOKE VISUALISATION; TEST CONFIGURATIONS; WIND TOWERS; WIND TUNNEL MEASUREMENTS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

AIRFLOW; BOUNDARY CONDITION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTAL APPARATUS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; VENTILATION; WIND FIELD; WIND TUNNEL; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84902337780     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2014.05.022     Document Type: Article

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