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EPSRC Reference:	GR/L41431/01
Title:	UNSTEADY EFFECTS IN THE DESIGN OF NATURALLY VENTILATED BUILDINGS
Principal Investigator:	Riffat, Professor S
Other Investigators:	Shao, Professor L
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Project Partners:	British Gas
Department:	Sch of the Built Environment
Organisation:	University of Nottingham
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 June 1997	Ends:	31 May 1999	Value (£):	97,951
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Building Ops & Management
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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The proposed project aims to improve design procedures for naturally ventilated buildings by taking account of unsteady effects on envelope flows i.e: the process by which air enters a building under the action of wind and bouyancy. The envelope and its opening are the most important elements in the design of naturally ventilated buildings. If the envelope flows are wrong, the ventialtion system as a whole will probably fail. Three seperate improvements to design tools are proposed (one theoretical, two experimental) relating to the effects of wind turbulance. Unsteadiness in th envelope flows can have an important bearing on design procedures for the internal flows and the project also aims to look at two aspects of this.
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