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Double Skin Façades

Double skin façades are becoming an important system for the natural ventilation strategy in the new generation of buildings. They work with a ventilated air cavity between two layers of glazing, air flow is activated by solar-induced thermal buoyancy and wind and in some cases, natural ventilation can be utilised for most of the year. CFD provides a useful insight into the behaviour of a double skin façade towards the thermal comfort within a building. The air flow through the façade may be modelled for different positions of the ventilation openings and under both forced and natural ventilation.

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