Optimizing Courtyard Geometry for Enhanced Indoor Ventilation in Contemporary Residential Buildings | ||
| Industrial Technology Journal | ||
| Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 24 March 2025 PDF (1.3 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/itj.2025.366033.1022 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Reham Fathy Ahmed Abd El Aal* 1; Ahmed M. Seddik Hassan1; Asmaa Abd elmoneim Fahmi2; Sherif Mohamed Ahmed Ali3; Mohamed Abdelhady2 | ||
| 1Department of Architectural Construction Technology, Faculty of Technology and Education, Beni-Suef University, Egypt. | ||
| 2Department of Civil and Architectural Constructions, Faculty of Technology and Education, Suez University, P.O.Box: 43221, Suez, Egypt | ||
| 3Department of Civil and Architectural Constructions, Faculty of Technology and Education, Suez University, P.O.Box: 43221, Suez, Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This current research aims to investigate the influence of courtyard place, the length to width proportion, and its orientation on the rates of airflow inside the building spaces, using (Autodesk CFD 2024) program., to simulate the impact of the courtyard on the efficiency of internal natural ventilation, by studying the relationship between the courtyard position, different proportions and orientation, to reach the better geometry of the courtyard that improves the natural ventilation rates inside the residential buildings in Kharga city in the New Valley Governorate, Egypt. The reference area is 157.25 m2, which accommodates a square central courtyard with 5 m × 5 m dimensions. The results of the study indicated that the optimum position of the internal courtyard which improves the airflow rate, thus enhancing the natural ventilation inside the dwelling, was the position of the courtyard on the southwestern interface, with a length-to-width proportion (1:1.5) with longitudinal axis orientation to east-west. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Internal courtyards; Courtyard Parameters; Ventilation inside buildings; and Residential buildings | ||
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