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Windcatcher

A windcatcher, wind tower, or wind scoop (Persian: بادگیر, romanized: Badgir) is a traditional architectural element used to create cross ventilation and passive cooling in buildings. Windcatchers come in various designs, depending on whether local prevailing winds are unidirectional, bidirectional, or multidirectional, on how they change with altitude…

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Location

Cooling methods

Windcatchers and climate change

Regional use

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Windcatcher

Nodes129
Edges128
Triples83
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.015504
Components1

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Windcatcher

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related to Further reading · 32
Windcatcher → Azizian, Bahadori, Bibcode, Building, Building Services Engineering Research, Built Environment, Business Media LLC, Elsevier BV, Energy, Environment, Experimental, Iranian Architecture, ISSN, Kassir, Mehdi, Montazeri, Nasrollahi, Nazanin, Parham Kheirkhah, Passive
related to Evaporative cooling · 8
Windcatcher → Coandă, For, In, On, The, This, When, Windcatchers
related to Location · 7
Windcatcher → If, In, More, The, These, Windcatchers, Windtowers
related to Subterranean cooling · 7
Windcatcher → Below, Even, In, MATT, The, These, Windcatchers
related to Airflow forces · 6
Windcatcher → Airflow, It, Tesla, The, Turbulent, Uniform
has method · 5
Windcatcher → Even, In, Night-flushing, The, Windcatchers
related to Asia · 4
Windcatcher → Islamic, South Asia, West, Windcatchers
related to Americas · 2
Windcatcher → Utah, Zion National Park
related to Windcatchers and climate change · 1
Windcatcher → Windcatchers

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air windcatchers used cooling also wind building cool temperature evaporative house heat iran night use may ventilation flow effect side

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Windcatcherhas methodNight-flushing0.60section

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