Mat Santamouris, Elena Dascalaki
Year:
1997
Bibliographic info:
Building Simulation, 5, 1997, Prague, Czech Republic, p. 327-333

An extensive experimental program on single sided natural ventilation was  carried  out  within the frame of PASCOOL EC research project. Within the frame of these activities, four single sided natural ventilation experiments were carried out in a test cell, a full scale outdoor  facility. Experimental data were used as  input  for numerical simulations that  were  carried  out using air flow calculation tools based on network modeling as well as computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Finally, fuzzy logic techniques were used to predict the air velocity profile in the middle of the opening. This paper presents the simulation results using the above approaches as well  as  a comparison with measurements.