Optimizing opening dimensions for naturally ventilated buildings

Louis Stephan, Alain Bastide and Etienne Wurtz

Applied Energy, 2011, vol. 88, issue 8, 2801 pages

Abstract: Since naturally ventilated buildings respond to site conditions and microclimate, we cannot establish a "one set of criteria" for every naturally ventilated building. So natural ventilation should be optimized to deal with thermal comfort in passive buildings during summer. A survey of existing tools for natural ventilation simulation shows the dominance of so-called "analysis" tools over "design" tools. In this present work, we will propose a new method to size natural ventilation openings based on inverse calculation, reduction of the number of independent parameters and optimization of occupants thermal comfort.

Keywords: Natural; ventilation; GenOpt; simspark; Inverse; calculation; Optimization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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