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🏔️ Termite Mound Climate Control: Stack Effect, Convection and Biomimicry

Cutaway Blender-built Macrotermes-style mound with a 2-D day-night heat-conduction solver, buoyancy-driven chimney flow that reverses through the day, a CO2 budget (wall diffusion, vent, wind pumping) and a passively ventilated building. Unlike the existing termite airflow and ventilation pages it couples the daily thermal wave (penetration depth), the debated thermosiphon-versus-wind mechanisms and the Eastgate-style biomimicry stack formula, with five in-page numerical checks.

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⚙ Under the hood

A Blender-built cutaway Macrotermes-style mound with instanced termites runs a 2-D day-night heat-conduction solver (wall penetration depth, reversing chimney-flute circulation) and a CO2 budget with wall diffusion, vent holes and wind pumping, then applies the same stack-effect formula to a passively ventilated Eastgate-style building. Unlike the existing termite ventilation and airflow pages it couples the daily thermal wave, the debated thermosiphon-versus-wind mechanisms and the biomimicry energy model, with six in-page numerical checks.

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