Double-loaded affordable apartments, which are commonly seen in tropical developing countries, suffer from poor cross-ventilation, particularly on the leeward side of buildings. This study aims to parametrically evaluate closed-vertical void configurations improve ventilation performance double-loaded apartment building using validated CFD models. The include aspect ratio void, pilotis size and...

-THE Sierra Leone Rise, located in the east equatorial Atlantic. forms a discontinuous chain of seamounts as shallow as 2 km extending with a general NE-SW trend from near the Sierra Leone Coast of Africa, to the St Paul fracture zone near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (Fig. 1). The origin of this feature has remained a topic of discussion. Sheridan et al.' have hypothesised that the Sierra Leone Rise...