Evaluation of building arrangement on natural ventilation potential in ideal building arrays

Abstract

Nowadays, the process of urbanization is accelerating, and the density of buildings is increasing rapidly. Natural ventlation is an energy-saving way of building ventilation and to solve the issue of building overheating. The buildings are all considered as cubes and their arrays are evenly distributed. The results from nearly 100 cases show density is the main factor in uniform arrays and not much difference between the staggered and normal arrangements if consider a year. The method can reflect the ventilation capacity of the buildings, which is somewhat inverse to the air age but different meaning. It can be used to guide the layout and planning in early design stage.

Keywords

• building energy conservation
• wind environment
• natural ventilation
• wind pressure ventilation
• city planning
• computational fluid dynamics (cfd)