PREDICTING SINGLE-SIDED NATURAL VENTILATION RATES IN BUILDINGS

Natural ventilation contributes significantly in reducing the cooling load of buildings and in increasing thermal comfort. Single sided natu ral ventilation configurations are very frequent especially in urban e nvironments. Fifty-two single sided natural ventilation configurations have been studied experimentally and are compared with the prediction s of six different network ventilation models. The heat and mass trans fer characteristics of the studied cases are analysed and discussed. F inally, a new model to predict air flow rates in single sided natural ventilation configurations is proposed.