In recent years, the 'usability' of ventilation and air infiltration
models (both public domain and commercially available) has increased greatly.
Possible areas of application for 15 such models are identified in this
report. (These are mainly 'network' models.) In addition, it discusses
the input data that must be provided in order to use them. The capabilities
of the models are described and full contact details on how to obtain
them are provided.
1. Introduction
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| 1.1 Single and mulit-zone models |
| 1.2 Ventilation models and buildings thermal simulation
tools |
| 1.2.1 Ventilation models and night cooling
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| 1.3Availabilityof ventilation models |
| 1.4 The influence of model users |
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2. Building-Related Input Data
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| 2.1 Air leakage paths |
| 2.1.1 Characteristic air flow equations |
| 2.1.2 Current availability of component airtightness
data |
| 2.2 Treatment of whole building airtightness data |
| 2.2.1 A technique for the prediction of building
airtightness |
| 2.3 Wind pressure coefficients |
| 2.3.1 Wind pressure coefficient generation tools
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3. Meteorological Data
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| 3.1 Wind and temperature in urban environments |
| 3.2 Conversion of rural to urban meteorological data |
| 3.2.1 Wind velocity data |
| 3.2.2 Temperature data |
| 3.3 The properties of moist air (psychometric data) |
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4. Additional Data Considerations
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| 4.1 Occupancy data |
| 4.2 Data related to energy use |
| 4.3 Pollutant models |
| 4.4 Caution with summary output data |
| 4.5 Sensitivity analysis |
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5. Descriptions of the Models
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| 5.1 AIDA |
| 5.2 AIM-2 |
| 5.3 AIOLOS |
| 5.4 BREEZE |
| 5.5 CEN simplified calculation procedures |
| 5.6 CIBSE 'inverse sizing' model |
| 5.7 COMIS |
| 5.8 CONTAM96 |
| 5.9 LBL |
| 5.10 NatVent |
| 5.11 NatVent NaVIAQ |
| 5.12 NiteCool |
| 5.13 PASSPORT Plus |
| 5.14 SUMMER |
| 5.15 VENT |