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An Integrated Experimental-Computational Investigation Of Connected Spaces As Natural Ventilation Typologies, Ulrike Passe, Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, Shan He, Kyle Vansice, Songzhe Xu
An Integrated Experimental-Computational Investigation Of Connected Spaces As Natural Ventilation Typologies, Ulrike Passe, Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, Shan He, Kyle Vansice, Songzhe Xu
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This paper investigates the impact of spatial composition on the effectiveness of passive cooling by natural ventilation in a comparative study of the conical roofed Harran houses in Turkey and a passive solar home in the Midwest of the United States. While the projects are distinct and are situated in two extreme climate zones (hot and arid and continental humid) both projects have in common open variable configurations of multiple interconnected spaces. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations using OpenFoam were used to investigate the fundamental airflow characteristics and the resulting interior temperature and velocity profiles. The simulations were initialized as ...