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Natural ventilation
About: Natural ventilation is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 6207 publications have been published within this topic receiving 95704 citations.
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TL;DR: The adaptive comfort standard (ACS) as mentioned in this paper is based on the analysis of 21,000 sets of raw data compiled from field studies in 160 buildings located on four continents in varied climatic zones.
994 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an overview of the tools used to predict ventilation performance in buildings, which includes analytical models, empirical models, small-scale experimental models, full scale experimental model, multizone network models, zonal models, and computational fluid dynamics models.
808 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the impact of urban climate on the energy consumption of buildings and find that for the city of Athens, where the mean heat island intensity exceeds 10°C, the cooling load of urban buildings may be doubled, the peak electricity load for cooling purposes may be tripled especially for higher set point temperatures, while the minimum COP value of air conditioners may be decreased up to 25% because of the higher ambient temperatures.
784 citations
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01 Jan 1996
TL;DR: Tracer gas techniques for measuring age distribution and ventilation efficiency are described in this paper. But they are not suitable for the measurement of large internal openings, as shown in Figure 1.
Abstract: Partial table of contents: Flow Through Envelope Openings. Basic Mechanisms of Mass Transport Within Buildings. Momentum and Buoyancy Induced Primary Air Flows. Flows in Rooms. Flow Through Large Internal Openings. Tracer Gas Techniques for Ventilation Rate Measurements. Tracer Gas Techniques for Measuring Age Distribution and Ventilation Efficiency. Index.
708 citations
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31 Dec 1990
TL;DR: Hazim Awbi's Ventilation of Buildings has become established as the definitive text on the subject and has been thoroughly revised in the 1990s as mentioned in this paper, drawing in the results of considerable new research in the field.
Abstract: Hazim Awbi's Ventilation of Buildings has become established as the definitive text on the subject. This new, thoroughly revised, edition builds on the basic principles of the original text drawing in the results of considerable new research in the field. A new chapter on natural ventilation is also added and recent developments in ventilation concepts and room air distribution are also considered. The text is intended for the practitioner in the building services industry, the architect, the postgraduate student undertaking courses or research in HVAC, building services engineering, or building environmental engineering, and the undergraduate studying building services as a major subject. Readers are assumed to be familiar with the basic principles of fluid flow and heat transfer and some of the material requires more advanced knowledge of partial differential equations which describe the turbulent flow and heat transfer processes of fluids. The book is both a presentation of the practical issues that are needed for modern ventilation system design and a survey of recent developments in the subject
650 citations