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Effects of inlet area on performance of a solar chimney for natural ventilation and heating of buildings

datacite.subject.fos oecd::Engineering and technology
dc.contributor.author Minh-Thu T. Huynh
dc.contributor.author Y. Q. Nguyen
dc.date.accessioned 2022-11-19T06:47:58Z
dc.date.available 2022-11-19T06:47:58Z
dc.date.issued 2021
dc.description.abstract Natural ventilation, one of the key elements of green buildings, can be achieved with solar chimneys. This device based on buoyancy effects induced by solar radiation to create air flow for ventilation. Among the factors influencing performance of a solar chimney is the area of the inlet. In this study, effects of reducing the inlet area on the performance of a vertical solar chimney was examined numerically. A CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) model was built on the ANSYS Fluent CFD code to simulate the air flow and heat transfer inside the solar chimney at different heights and gaps. The results showed that, as the inlet area decreases, the flow rate is almost unchanged until a critical ratio of the inlet area and the gap of the air channel. As the inlet area decreases further, the flow rate decreases at a constant rate. The temperature rise is always enhanced as the inlet area decreases. The changes of the thermal efficiency depend on the gap – to -height ratio. These observations can serve as references for design of air damper at inlet of solar chimney for a specific application, such as ventilation where higher flow rate is desired, or heating where higher temperature rise is preferred
dc.identifier.doi 10.1063/5.0066569
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.vlu.edu.vn:443/handle/123456789/1476
dc.language.iso en_US
dc.relation.ispartof 1ST VAN LANG INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HERITAGE AND TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE PROCEEDING, 2021: VanLang-HeriTech, 2021
dc.relation.ispartof AIP Conference Proceedings
dc.relation.issn 0094-243X
dc.subject "Thermal efficiency
dc.subject Computational fluid dynamics
dc.subject Atmospheric radiation
dc.subject Heat transfer
dc.subject Computer software"
dc.title Effects of inlet area on performance of a solar chimney for natural ventilation and heating of buildings
dc.type proceedings-article
dspace.entity.type Publication
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