The study of natural ventilation of public housing in Singapore using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations
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International journal on architectural science, v.2, no.2, 2001, pp. 35-45
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to discuss the application of CFD for the study of natural ventilation of public housing flats in Singapore. The flat types chosen for this study include the 3-room and 4-room flats. Two cases are simulated based on these flat types, one having the internal doors closed and the other opened. The results show that naturally ventilated flats are able to achieve reasonable ventilation performance especially when the internal doors within the flats are opened for cross-ventilation. When the internal doors are closed, the ventilation performance drops drastically especially in the bedrooms which are side-sided ventilated. The results have also demonstrated that a reasonable degree of accuracy can be attained in the CFD simulations when the results obtained are compared with the field measurement.
(1) Introduction
(2) Methodology
(a) Buildings and sites selection
(b) Field studies
(c) CFD simulations
(i) Grid Structure and boundary conditions
(ii) Assumptions
(3) Data analysis
(a) Overview
(b) 3-room cases
(c) 4-room cases
(d) Comparative analysis between the 3-room cases and the 4-room cases
(e) Comparison of CFD simulations with field measurements
(4) Conclusion
(5) References
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Notes: Ventilation
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Article
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Date
2001
Language
en