Unbalanced exchange flow and its implications for the night cooling of buildings by displacement ventilation

Environmental Fluid Mechanics - 2021
Nick Wise1, Gary R. Hunt1
1Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK

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AbstractPassive ventilation of buildings at night forms an essential part of a low-energy cooling strategy, enabling excess heat that has accumulated during the day to self-purge and be replaced with cooler night air. Instrumental to the success of a purge are the locations and areas of ventilation openings, and openings positioned at low and at high levels are a common choice as there is then the expectation that a buoyancy-driven displacement flow will establish and persist. Desirable for their efficiency, displacement flows guide excess heat out through high-level openings and cooler air in through low-level openings. Herein we show that displacement flow cannot be maintained for the full duration of a purge. Instead, the flow must transition to an ‘unbalanced exchange flow’, whereby the cool inflow of air at low level is maintained but there is now a warm outflow and a cool inflow occurring simultaneously at the high-level opening. The internal redistribution of heat caused by this exchange alters the rate at which heat is self-purged and the time thought necessary to complete a purge. We develop a theoretical model that captures and predicts these behaviours. Our approach is distinct from all others which assume that a displacement flow will persist throughout the purge. Based on this enhanced understanding, and specifically that the transition to unbalanced exchange flow changes the rate of cooling and resultant emptying times, we anticipate that practitioners will be better placed to design passive systems that meet their target specifications for cooling.

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