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Natural Convection in Ventilated Building Facades Using LES

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Understanding the buoyancy-driven flow in gas gap enclosures can provide significant physical insight into a variety of technological applications ranging from cooling of electronic equipment to energy related components and systems.

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Grigoriadis, D.G.E. (2018). Natural Convection in Ventilated Building Facades Using LES. In: Grigoriadis, D., Geurts, B., Kuerten, H., Fröhlich, J., Armenio, V. (eds) Direct and Large-Eddy Simulation X. ERCOFTAC Series, vol 24. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63212-4_64

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