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Louis STEPHAN, Alain BASTIDE, Etienne WURTZ, Bernard SOUYRI
natural ventilation
GenOpt
SimSPARK
Inverse
optimization
Languages
English
Bibliographic info
Building Simulation, 2009, Glasgow, Scotland

Since naturally ventilated buildings respond to site conditions and microclimate, there is no ”one set of spe-cific criteria” for every naturally ventilated building. So natural ventilation should be optimized to deal with ther-mal comfort in passive buildings during hot season. For this aim, we will propose a new method to reduce the number of independent parameters based on an analogy with a mechanically ventilated building, then we will ap-ply an adapted optimization approach to produce an opti-mized ventilation sequence, and finally we will perform an inverse calculation to determine a series of opening heights corresponding to the optimized ventilation se-quence.