Investigating the influence of neighbouring structures on natural ventilation potential of a full-scale cubical building using time-dependent CFD
Marco-Felipe King,Hannah Gough,Christos Halios,Janet F. Barlow,A.P. Robertson,R.P. Hoxey,Catherine J. Noakes +6 more
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured facade pressures and ventilation rates in the Silsoe cube under single-sided and cross-flow ventilation configurations, compared with CFD simulations conducted in OpenFoam and ANSYS Fluent using a typical linear workflow approach.
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About: This article is published in Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics. The article was published on 01 Oct 2017. and is currently open access. The article focuses on the topics: Natural ventilation & Ventilation (architecture).
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