TY - BOOK AU - Medshinge, Tanvi (PD003716) AU - Vaidya, Prasad (Guide) TI - Effective wind-induced natural ventilation in a residential apartment typology (Softcopy is also available ) U1 - MIAD TH-0167 PY - 2018/// N1 - CONTENTS Approval Letter Declaration Abstract Acknowledgement Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables 1 Introduction 3 1.1 Background 3 1.2 Need for Study 5 1.3 Aim 5 1.4 Objectives 5 1.5 Research Questions 6 1.6 Scope and Limitations 6 2 Literature Review 9 2.1 Survey of Current Practices 9 2.2 Analysis Techniques for Natural Ventilation 10 2.2.1 Simple Calculations 10 2.2.2 Computational Tools 11 2.2.3 Physical Modelling Tools 11 2.2.4 Quantification of Natural Ventilation 12 2.3 Design Optimization for Natural Ventilation 13 2.3.1 Design Approaches 13 2.3.2 Natural Ventilation in Residential Buildings 14 2.3.3 Design Strategies for Natural Ventilation 15 2.3.4 Summary of Literature Review 17 3 Methodology 21 3.1 Introduction 21 3.2 Literature review 21 3.3 Survey of practicing architects 21 3.4 Optimization of a design for natural ventilation 23 3.4.1 Pilot Water Table Experiments 24 3.4.2 Modifications in the Apparatus 24 3.4.3 Identifying the Prototype Design for this Study 25 3.4.4 Identification of Study Area for the Model 26 3.4.5 Identification of Base Case Condition 28 3.4.6 Analysis of Existing Design 28 3.4.7 Identification of the Design Problem Cases 30 3.4.8 Propose Design Solution for Each Design Problem Cases 30 4 Results and Observations 35 4.1 Survey Findings 35 4.2 Analysis of Existing Design 38 4.2.1 Quantitative Analysis 38 4.2.2 Shading Analysis 41 4.3 Identification of Design Problem Cases 52 4.3.1 Selection of WIA’s 52 4.3.2 Selection of Orientations 52 4.3.3 Design Problem Cases 52 4.4 Analysis of Design Problem Cases 53 4.4.1 Design Problem Case 1 53 4.4.2 Design Problem Case 2 59 4.4.3 Design Problem Case 3 64 4.4.4 Design Problem Case 4 70 4.4.5 Summary of results 75 5 Conclusions 83 BIBLIOGRAPHY 85 ER -