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Evaluation of Ventilation Efficiency for Various Gravity Ventilators  

하현철 (창원대학교 환경공학과)
김태형 (창원대학교 환경공학과)
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Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering / v.14, no.7, 2002 , pp. 543-551 More about this Journal
Abstract
Gravity ventilators allow the escape of the warm air and air contaminants due to both (either) buoyancy and (or) convection. As a natural ventilation strategy, various gravity ventilators can be installed on the roof. Ventilation efficiency could be affected by various parameters, such as, area of openings, wind velocity and incidence angle, temperature difference between inside and outside, and shape of ventilator. Especially, the shape of roof gravity ventilator might be one of influencing factors for the effective ventilation. The window type gravity ventilators are frequently installed instead of general (standard) gravity ventilator. However, the ventilation efficiencies of them were not proved yet. To compare the ventilation efficiency, general type ventilator and two window type ventilators were numerically tested. Mean age of air, temperature and CO concentration were predicted by using commercial CFD code, AIRPAK (Ver. 2.0) with various conditions. The predicted result showed that general type ventilator is more effective for natural ventilation than window type ventilators.
Keywords
Natural ventilation; Gravity ventilator; Computational fluid dynamics; General ventilation;
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