Summary
Uses a validated CFD model of buildings of several sizes equipped with a wall-mounted solar chimney, also varying the inlet window position, to relate small-scale and full-scale behaviour. Dimensionless groups combined with regression give an equation predicting airflow speed and ventilation rate that matches simulations and experiments within about 3% and randomly generated cases within 6%.
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