A study of passive ventilation integrated with heat recovery

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 82, Issue , 2014, Pages 799-811

  O'Connor, Dominic ^a   Calautit, John Kaiser ^a   Hughes, Ben Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Air supply rate, CFD; Natural ventilation; Rotary wheel; Wind tower; Wind tunnel

Indexed keywords

AIR SUPPLY RATE; NATURAL VENTILATION; PASSIVE VENTILATION; ROTARY WHEELS; WIND TOWERS;

WIND TUNNELS;

EID: 84907145555     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.05.050     Document Type: Article

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