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Air curtains are installed in open doorways of a building to reduce buoyancy-driven exchange flows across the doorway. Although an air curtain allows an unhampered passage of humans and vehicles, the interaction of this traffic with an air…
A moderate-sized (8 MW) fire was modeled in a warehouse located in an urban area with diverse architecture, under wind conditions. The study investigates the impact of neighboring architecture on the wind field and the resulting effect on…
Controlling the air quality is of the utmost importance in today buildings. Vertical air curtains are often used to separate two different climatic zones with a view to reduce heat transfer. In fact, this research work proposes an air…
Air curtains are commonly employed in building applications to facilitate aerodynamic sealing against the exchange flow that occurs through an open doorway due to the density differences owing to buoyancy. Such situations often prevail due…
The refuge floors have been introduced into high-rise buildings with the aim of ensuring a safe place to stay for the occupants in case of an emergency: primarily during a fire breakout. Provisionals for natural ventilation of the refuge…
In this paper, we study the ventilation airflow in a model classroom, where exhaust fans throw out the used air, to replace it with outdoor air through open door. Hybrid ventilation, or mechanically assisted natural ventilation, of this…
Two-dimensional numerical simulations with Eulerian-Lagrangian method and detailed chemical mechanism are conducted to study the methane detonation propagation across a water curtain with finite thickness. The critical length of the water…
Developing accurate computational models of wildfire dynamics is increasingly important due to the substantial and expanding negative impacts of wildfire events on human health, infrastructure, and the environment. Wildfire spread and…
Atmospheric turbulent velocity fluctuations are known to increase wind turbine structural loading and accelerate wake recovery, but the impact of vortical coherent structures in the atmosphere on wind turbines has not yet been evaluated.…
I suggest a solution to a persistent mystery in the physics of turbulent shear flows: cumulus clouds rise to towering heights, practically without entraining the ambient medium, while apparently similar turbulent jets in general lose their…
We study the evacuation dynamics of a crowd evacuating from a complex geometry in the presence of a fire as well as of a slowly spreading smoke curtain. The crowd is composed of two kinds of individuals: those who know the layout of the…
Air curtains are commonly used as separation barriers to reduce exchange flows through an open-door of a building.Here, we investigated the effectiveness of an air curtain to prevent the transport of contaminants by a person walking along a…
Bubble curtains are widely used to protect marine life from exposure to noise during offshore construction. However, operating a bubble curtain is costly. Therefore optimizing the acoustic effect of the available air is important. An…
Urban trees play a crucial role in urban climate in many aspects. However, existing research has not adequately explored the impact from a time-evolving perspective, that is, tree growth over time. To bridge this research gap, this study…
Airborne transmission of disease is of concern in many indoor spaces. Here, aerosol dispersion and removal in an unoccupied 4-bed hospital room was characterized using a transient aerosol tracer experiment for 38 experiments covering 4…
The aim of this paper is to show the influence of the atmospheric boundary layer profile on the distribution of velocity in a building having two large openings. The knowledge of the flow form inside a building is useful to define a thermal…
The urban canopy affects wind in complex ways, making it challenging to predict wind-driven natural ventilation and cooling in buildings. Using large eddy simulations of coupled outdoor and indoor airflow, we study how the surrounding urban…
The calculation of airflows is of great importance for detailed building thermal simulation computer codes, these airflows most frequently constituting an important thermal coupling between the building and the outside on one hand, and the…
In this report a wind tunnel is described in term of its design, its construction as well as in its validation of flow features. This wind tunnel is characterized by a new unconventional design. The innovative design allows an unusual long…
To mitigate the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, officials have employed social distancing and stay-at-home measures, with increased attention to room ventilation emerging only more recently. Effective distancing practices for open spaces can be…