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Natural Air Ventilation in Building
Natural Air Ventilation in Building
Wind-driven air movement is caused by a difference in pressure between the inside and outside of
the building caused by wind.
Buoyancy-driven air movement is caused by the tendency for warm air to expand, and so become
less dense and more buoyant, rising through the general air mass. Conversely cool air contracts,
becoming more dense and less buoyant and falling through the air mass. This can create circulating
currents of rising and falling air.