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Solar Chimney Updraft Tower: Stack-Effect Power (2D)

2D cutaway solar-chimney lab: a real energy-balance and buoyant stack-effect model — weather, collector area and chimney height drive computed updraft velocity and turbine power, plotted live against the Manzanares prototype.

Engineering & Materials2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

This 2D companion drives the same energy-balance and buoyant stack-effect physics as the 3D Solar Chimney scene through a plain cutaway diagram built for reading the numbers rather than orbiting a tower: sunlight heats a shallow air layer under a greenhouse collector by a real weather-dependent energy balance (Q = irradiance × area × efficiency), that temperature rise drives a computed buoyant draft velocity up the chimney (v = 0.5·√(2gH·ΔT/T)), and turbines at the base extract kinetic power at a fixed efficiency — while a live power curve sweeps the same equations across chimney heights and marks the real Manzanares, Spain prototype, so the trade-off between a taller tower and a bigger collector stays directly visible.

⚙ Under the hood

2D solar-chimney lab with a real weather-dependent energy balance, a buoyant stack-effect draft equation, and a live power-vs-height curve calibrated against the Manzanares, Spain prototype.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install