Notice of RetractionOptimal design of natural ventilation in a high-rise residential building

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This study uses the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method to evaluate the natural wind environment of a high-rise residential building under two unit design schemes. The impacts of openings´ location and size on the indoor wind environment are also investigated. After that, the optimization advices for the adverse design scheme are brought forward and carried out in its further optimization. The study indicates that the mean air speed and comfortable area in the occupied region, air change rate and ventilation rate increase obviously with the increase of storey for the high-rise residential building. But the uniformity of wind speed distribution has little relationship with it. The natural wind environment inside of the high-rise residential building can be improved effectively through the appropriate adjustment to the location and size of openings. The results also show that analyzing the effects of openings´ location and size on indoor wind environment by CFD is an effective method to find the way to optimize the natural ventilation design.