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Methodology applied to the evaluation of natural ventilation in residential building retrofits: A case study Meiss Rodríguez, Alberto Padilla Marcos, Miguel Ángel Feijó Muñoz, Jesús The primary objective of this paper is to present the use of a steady model that is able to qualify and quantify available natural ventilation flows applied to the energy retrofitting of urban residential districts. In terms of air quality, natural ventilation presents more efficient solutions compared to active systems. This method combines numeric simulations, through the utilization of Ansys Fluent R15.0® and Engineering Equation Solver EES®, with on-site pressurization tests. Testing consists of the application of the seasonal pressure gradient on the building’s envelope and the calculation of the ventilation flows in three climatic representative conditions (summer, winter, and annual average). Through the implementation of this methodology to existing buildings it is possible to evaluate the influence of the built environment, as well as key parameters (relative height of the dwelling, number of vertical ventilation ducts, and airtightness of windows) of available natural ventilation. 2022-11-24T12:09:52Z 2022-11-24T12:09:52Z 2022-11-24T12:09:52Z 2017 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Energies, 2017, vol. 10, n. 4, p. 456. https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/57416 10.3390/en10040456 456 4 Energies 10 1996-1073 eng https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/10/4/456 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ © 2017 The Author(s) Atribución 4.0 Internacional MDPI