Natural ventilation nowadays has been paid great concerns due to its zero carbon emission
and good performance on the human health. In engineering applications, cross ventilation …

Numerous studies have demonstrated that the climate of cities and human settlements can
affect building performance and human comfort. Historically, ambient data were collected …

The fire event in a tunnel creates a rapid spread of heat and smoke flows in a long and
confined space, which not only endangers human life but also challenges the fire …

Heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems provide a comfortable indoor
thermal environment, but in the process of attaining appropriate indoor thermal comfort …

Ventilation performance could influence thermal comfort and building energy. This study
aimed to investigate the ventilation efficiency enhanced by roof window and mechanical …

Utility tunnels could make full use of underground space and are important for the energy
security of the city. The natural gas pipelines were integrated into utility tunnels and have …

High-efficient evaluations of building performance are often required for comparisons of
different design alternatives in architectural sustainable design processes. General …

The irregular shape of buildings always tenders an enormous challenge to the designers.
The wind velocity at the pedestrian level has a specific approach from a comfortable point of …

Unstable interaction between shear layers that form in the wake of an isolated building
exposed to wind can drive natural pumping ventilation in windward and leeward facing …

To scrutinize the current application of building information modelling (BIM) and
computational fluid dynamics (CFD) integration in research as well as industrial fields, the …