Paper Title
The Effect Of Plan Size In Wind Catcher On Its Ventilation Rate
Abstract
Wind catchers/towers systems were employed in buildings in the Middle East for many centuries and they are
known by different names in different parts of the region. Their application in the hot arid region of the Middle East is to
provide for natural ventilation/passive cooling and hence thermal comfort, exploiting, particularly, night-time ventilation
strategy. They can be beautiful objects, feasible architectural feature additions to buildings and are inherently durable. This
paper aims to find out the best plan geometry and plan size in order to increase the ventilation rate by 3-D computational fluid
dynamics (CFD) simulations with comparing volume flow rate in different four-sided wind catcher with different geometry
and plan size.
Keywords- Wind Catcher, Wind Catcher Geometry, Wind Catcher’s Plan Size, CFX Software, Ansys.