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🕳️ Cave Chimney Effect: Stack Airflow Between Two Entrances

A cut-away karst cave with a low and a high entrance breathes by temperature: ideal-gas stack pressure, loss-coefficient flow through rooms and a squeeze, seasonal flow reversal and cave-air cooling. Set the weather, height and squeeze or run a year.

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A cut-away karst cave with a low and a high entrance breathes by temperature: ideal-gas stack pressure, loss-coefficient flow through rooms and a squeeze, seasonal flow reversal and cave-air cooling. Set the weather, height and squeeze or run a year.

CaveStack EffectChimney EffectVentilationKarstThree.jsBlender

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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