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Energy consumption of buildings can be significantly reduced with appropriate design for natural ventilation, particularly based on solar energy. Solar heat gained on the building envelope can be converted into thermal effects to induce air flow for natural ventilation or cooling of the building interior and the building envelope. For the ventilation application, the solar chimney should provide sufficient air flow rate. In this study, we investigated a solar chimney for ventilation of a three – story building. The chimney was assumed to be integrated into the building envelope and connected to all three stories of the building. To predict the air flow rate induced by the chimney through each story, a computational model was built based on the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) method. By changing the design parameters (locations and dimensions of the air inlets) of the chimney, the ventilation rate through each story …