Abstract
Ventilation of industrial or domestic buildings is a significant cost of human living. The present chapter describes a novel approach to building ventilation of the future. With environmental concerns growing, the use of roof top turbine that uses wind as a renewable source of energy that is cheap to produce and install and requires hardly any maintenance for its operation is gaining greater popularity. The main drawback of such ventilator is that the device relies on the availability of wind and is not very efficient in exhausting air from specific areas of interest and reduce temperature within buildings significantly. The present chapter describes how advanced active flow control methodologies that have generally originated from aerospace research, can be adapted to alleviate the ventilation problem. The chapter describes how pulsed jet, particularly produced using synthetic jet actuators can be used to complement the roof top ventilator operation and become an integrated cost-effective, energy efficient environment friendly ventilation system of the future.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Advances in Engineering Research |
| Publisher | Nova Science Publishers, Inc. |
| Pages | 187-211 |
| Number of pages | 25 |
| Volume | 8 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781633212824 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781633212817 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jul 2014 |
| Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Engineering
