Wind tunnel data of the analysis of heat pipe and wind catcher technology for the built environment

John Kaiser Calautit; Hassam Nasarullah Chaudhry; Ben Richard Hughes

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2015.09.027

Wind tunnel data of the analysis of heat pipe and wind catcher technology for the built environment

Data Brief. 2015 Oct 3:5:424-8. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2015.09.027. eCollection 2015 Dec.

Authors

John Kaiser Calautit¹, Hassam Nasarullah Chaudhry², Ben Richard Hughes¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.
² School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society, Heriot-Watt University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Abstract

The data presented in this article were the basis for the study reported in the research articles entitled 'Climate responsive behaviour heat pipe technology for enhanced passive airside cooling' by Chaudhry and Hughes [10] which presents the passive airside cooling capability of heat pipes in response to gradually varying external temperatures and related to the research article "CFD and wind tunnel study of the performance of a uni-directional wind catcher with heat transfer devices" by Calautit and Hughes [1] which compares the ventilation performance of a standard roof mounted wind catcher and wind catcher incorporating the heat pipe technology. Here, we detail the wind tunnel test set-up and inflow conditions and the methodologies for the transient heat pipe experiment and analysis of the integration of heat pipes within the control domain of a wind catcher design.