A free lecture by Professor Andy Woods of St. Johns College, Cambridge will take place in the Middleton Hall, at the University of Hull, 6pm on Monday 13th. October.

Professor Woods is Head of the BP Institute for Multiphase flow.

His lecture will describe research concerning the design of low energy
buildings, including the principles of natural ventilation and also heat
storage through use of phase change materials. It will include examples
of low energy buildings including the SSEES Building, UCL in Bloomsbury,
the Simmons-Fisk Brewery in Malta and the Breathing Space Centre in
Rotherham. The lecture will include a description of the air flow
patterns in these buildings, illustrated with some laboratory models,
using water baths, which have been developed to investigate the flow
patterns and some of the principles of natural ventilation. It will also
include some simplified models which illustrate the principles of
natural ventilation, accounting for the effects of both wind and
buoyancy forces in driving the flows, and for the effects of thermal
mass which can store or release heat using diurnal fluctuations of
temperature, in order to produce a near constant interior temperature.
The impact of such design in reducing energy consumption in such designs
will also be discussed.

 Poster is available to download here.

If you are interested in attending,please call VC's office on 01482 466557.