AT-90-24-3 -- Impacts of Variations in Wind Data on Building Energy Calculations PDF

States that wind is one of the key climatic factors affecting energy use in buildings. Points out that the wind that affects energy use in a particular building often differs in significant ways from the wind data used in energy calculations, and the wind effect predicted by these calculations may be inaccurate as a result. Investigates - 1) the difference in energy calculations caused by conversions of standard wind data to more realistic local conditions, 2) the influence of infiltration algorithms on the sensitivity to wind speed data differences and 3) compares the energy calculation effects of variations in wind data between the standard hourly climatic data sets. Provides conclusions.

KEYWORDS: Energy consumption, buildings, housing, winds, calculating, algorithms, air infiltration.