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Development of Operable Modular Louvers Sited in a Single-Sided Ventilated Room Through 3d Parametric Optimization

SSRN, ISSN: 1556-5068
2024
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Article Description

The current design practices of buildings to respond to environmental inputs have led to operable envelopes with external louver blinds systems. The key aspect of any openable louver flap design is to optimize inlets that might induce ventilation for occupants with low indoor airflow. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in 3D parametric modeling investigated the influence of openable louver inlet geometries (right trapezoid) and positions in a ventilated room. A single-sided ventilated room designed with two mirrored split blocks of inlets attached to that wall perpendicular to the wind was employed for this study. Twenty-eight different inlet shape geometries with their cross-sectional changes were investigated. In addition, the inlets' rotation, orientation, and elevation differences were also studied. Wind tunnel experiments were conducted to measure airflows inside the model room to validate the CFD simulations. A discernible impact was observed when the inclined side of the right trapezoid was oriented upward or downward, where inlet flaps open to the sides of the window. The mean air velocity in the ventilated room becomes more than double when inlet flaps open to the sides of the window, where the elevation difference in the inlet blocks introduces the pressure difference compared to no elevation difference in inlets. This study guides into refining an operable modular louver design to enhance air circulation and natural ventilation in dwelling spaces.

Bibliographic Details

Negin Aalami; Tariq Maqsood; Muhammed A. Bhuiyan; Kevin Zhang

Elsevier BV

Multidisciplinary; Natural ventilation; CFD; Modular building façade; 3D parametric modeling; Louver blinds; Wind tunnel experiment

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