A review of numerical simulation as a precedence method for prediction and evaluation of building ventilation performance

A Aflaki, M Esfandiari, S Mohammadi - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Natural ventilation has been used widely in buildings to deliver a healthy and comfortable
indoor environment for occupants. It also reduces the consumption of energy in the built …

CFD analysis of different ventilation strategies for a room with a heated wall

YQ Nguyen, VT Nguyen, LT Tran, JC Wells - Buildings, 2022 - mdpi.com
Solar chimneys can help to reduce solar heat gain on a building envelope and to enhance
natural ventilation. In this work, we proposed three configurations of two solar chimneys …

Factors affecting the performance of ventilation cavities in highly insulated assemblies

K Viljanen, X Lü, J Puttonen - Journal of Building Physics, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The article presents experimental studies of typical Finnish highly insulated (HI) envelopes
with thermal resistance values (R value) for the wall and roof inside the ventilation cavity …

Thermal performance of a solar façade system for building ventilation in the southeast of Mexico

I Hernández-López, J Xamán, I Zavala-Guillén… - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
An assessment of the thermal behavior of a room with a Solar Façade (SF) for ventilation
under the tropical wet climate of the Mexican southeast zone is presented. Both a summer …

Thermal performance analysis of a naturally ventilated system using PMV models for different roof inclinations in composite climatic conditions

Y Vaishnani, SF Ali, A Joshi, D Rakshit… - Journal of the Brazilian …, 2020 - Springer
Computational analysis has become a very useful tool for a detailed understanding of
building physics before actual building constructions and for predicting such system …

Thermal performance impacts of vented EIFS assemblies in the cold climate of Southern Ontario

K Khaled, R Richman - Journal of Building Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
One of the key improvements in EIFS/ETICS is the addition of geometrically-defined
drainage cavities at the rear of the continuous insulation layer to allow water that has …

Numerical study of the distribution of temperatures and relative humidity in a ventilated room located in warm weather

J Serrano-Arellano, JM Belman-Flores… - … in Engineering & …, 2020 - ingentaconnect.com
In the present study, an analysis of the heat and mass transfer in a ventilated cavity in a
warm climate zone was carried out to analyze, among others, the temperatures and …