Wind shadow model for air infiltration sheltering by upwind obstacles
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., CA (United States)
- Univ. of Alberta (Canada). Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
A wind shadow model has been developed to calculate the wind sheltering effects of upwind obstacles for air infiltration calculations. This effect must be determined for infiltration calculations because, in almost all situations, only the unobstructed mean wind speed is known for a building site. This model has adapted the theoretical calculation procedures developed for far wake centerline velocity deficit calculations to near field flows, where shelter has a significant effect. The model uses the concept of a wind shadow projected downstream by upwind buildings to determine the effect of wake velocity reduction on building surfaces. The turbulent nature of the wake is accounted for by flapping the wake over a range of wind directions. The effectiveness of this model in accounting for sheltering effects in infiltration calculations has been examined by comparing infiltration model predictions including the wind shadow model to measured data from a row of test houses. The measured data covered a wide range of wind speeds, wind directions and leakage distributions by using over 5000 hours of infiltration measurements from five houses.
- OSTI ID:
- 345240
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9702141-; TRN: IM9922%%173
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) winter meeting, Philadelphia, PA (United States), 24-28 Feb 1997; Other Information: PBD: 1997; Related Information: Is Part Of ASHRAE transactions: Technical and symposium papers, 1997. Volume 103, Part 1; PB: 1136 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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