TR5004:03
Airflow Design
Townsville
39 contact hours. First and second semester. On-campus and flexible delivery.
Staff: Professor R Aynsley.
Associations between building shapes and the airflow patterns around them, basic aerodynamics of flow in turbulent boundary layers, techniques for estimating probabilities of airflow inside buildings including model studies in boundary layer wind tunnels. Exploration of the conflicts between exposure for cooling breezes and exposure to tropical cyclones and sound privacy between buildings.
Learning Objectives:
- ability to estimate probabilities of indoor airflows for thermal comfort in the design of building in the tropics;
- ability to accommodate cyclonic wind forces in building features designed to enhance natural ventilation during normal weather conditions.
Assessment by essay (60%); examination (40%).
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