Uses a similitude approach to develop predictive graphs for the ventilation rate due to the stack or chimney effect. Uses a half scale model of an open side wall structure with a continuous and restricted open ridge, and finds that:< 1. Ventilation rate is approximately proportional to ridge outlet width< 2. Outlet Reynolds number response ie ventilation rate to changes in Grashof number is a function of the ratio between building height and ridge width.
Similitude analysis of ventilation by the stack effect from an open ridge livestock structure.
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Year:
1981
Bibliographic info:
Transactions of the ASAE 1981 vol.24 p.1030-1034