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Assessment of single-sided natural ventilation driven by buoyancy forces through variable window configurations
HighlightsSix poplar window styles are examined where the window pane titled or slid vertically.Vertical slide windows provide the best ventilation conditions.Horizontal and pivot windows provide very good ventilation.The discharge coefficients increase with increasing buoyancy and decreasing flow area.
AbstractNatural ventilation has great potential to create desirable indoor air quality and reduce energy consumption in buildings. Accurately modeling the windows of buildings is important to quantify airflow in single-sided natural ventilation. However, a simplification of real windows into rectangular openings has been widely applied in published literature, which seriously affects predictions of airflow through real windows. This investigation numerically evaluates the performances of real windows in the case of buoyancy-driven, single-sided ventilation. Several typical windows used in buildings are analyzed. The Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) model and k-ω turbulence model are combined to solve airflow characteristics inside and outside the building. The results reveal that the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model is sensitive to computational domain sizes and boundary conditions, while the sensitivities for different window configurations are different. The ventilation rates and thermal profiles inside the building varied for each window type, although the open window areas are almost identical. According to the comparison of CFD and analytical methods, it was found that the specification of constant discharge coefficients is no longer suitable to estimate the ventilation rates through real windows, and further investigations are needed to find better estimates of the coefficients for a particular window configuration.
Assessment of single-sided natural ventilation driven by buoyancy forces through variable window configurations
HighlightsSix poplar window styles are examined where the window pane titled or slid vertically.Vertical slide windows provide the best ventilation conditions.Horizontal and pivot windows provide very good ventilation.The discharge coefficients increase with increasing buoyancy and decreasing flow area.
AbstractNatural ventilation has great potential to create desirable indoor air quality and reduce energy consumption in buildings. Accurately modeling the windows of buildings is important to quantify airflow in single-sided natural ventilation. However, a simplification of real windows into rectangular openings has been widely applied in published literature, which seriously affects predictions of airflow through real windows. This investigation numerically evaluates the performances of real windows in the case of buoyancy-driven, single-sided ventilation. Several typical windows used in buildings are analyzed. The Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) model and k-ω turbulence model are combined to solve airflow characteristics inside and outside the building. The results reveal that the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model is sensitive to computational domain sizes and boundary conditions, while the sensitivities for different window configurations are different. The ventilation rates and thermal profiles inside the building varied for each window type, although the open window areas are almost identical. According to the comparison of CFD and analytical methods, it was found that the specification of constant discharge coefficients is no longer suitable to estimate the ventilation rates through real windows, and further investigations are needed to find better estimates of the coefficients for a particular window configuration.
Assessment of single-sided natural ventilation driven by buoyancy forces through variable window configurations
Wang, Jihong (author) / Wang, Shugang (author) / Zhang, Tengfei (author) / Battaglia, Francine (author)
Energy and Buildings ; 139 ; 762-779
2017-01-23
18 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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