This review describes a range of natural processes leading to the formation of turbulent
buoyant plumes, largely relating to volcanic processes, in which there are localized, intense …

Natural ventilation driven by thermal buoyancy is an energy-efficient approach to reduce
indoor air temperature. In practice, there are generally many heat sources in most naturally …

Numerical simulations are conducted to model the transient development of the buoyancy-
driven natural ventilation. The simulations are compared with experimental data and …

This book describes in depth the fundamental effects of buoyancy, a key force in driving air
and transporting heat and pollutants around the interior of a building. It is essential reading …

The natural ventilation of a well mixed, pre-heated room with a point source of heating, and
openings at the base and roof is investigated. The transient draining associated with the …

We study the dynamics of a naturally ventilated room in which a point source provides a
steady source of buoyancy and which is affected by an opposing unsteady wind. The wind is …

Full-scale experiments were carried out to explore the effects of the initial temperature
difference between the interior and exterior and the vent characteristics on the transient …

We demonstrate the use of the 'Direct-Adjoint-Looping method'for the identification of
optimal buoyancy-driven ventilation flows governed by Boussinesq equations. We use the …

We consider the problem of optimally controlling turbulent buoyancy-driven flows in the built
environment, focusing on a model test case of displacement ventilation with a time-varying …

Emptying–filling boxes have been studied in a wide range of configurations for decades, but
the flow created in the box by two plumes rising from sources of arbitrary strength and …