Treats 4 mechanisms of building heat exchange with the environment and their effect on overall energy consumption: 1) air infiltration and exfiltration, pressure distributions and gradients and resulting mass transfer at building surfaces; 2) influence on surface heat transmission of turbulent mixing of air close to building surface and mechanisms causing this mixing; 3) how air circulation around buildings strongly affects air conditioning cooling towers and how incorrect location of ventilation inlets and exhausts can reduce thermal efficiencies of cooling equipment and increase fan power requirements; 4) results of enclosing spaces such as shopping centres.
The effect of wind on energy consumption in buildings.
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Year:
1977
Bibliographic info:
Energy and Buildings May 1977, 1, (1), 77-84