Application of ANN to explore the potential use of natural ventilation in buildings in Turkey

The potential use of natural ventilation as a passive cooling system in new building designs in Kayseri, a midsize city in Turkey, was investigated for that study. Indoor air velocity distributions were simulated by the Fluent package program. Using the simulated data, an artificial neural network (ANN) model was developed for the prediction of indoor average and maximum air velocities. A high correlation was found between the simulated and the ANN predicted data.