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Outdoor Ventilation StandardINDEPENDENT RESEARCH BODY OVS-H1 : 2026 · ed. 1.2

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Three reference tables are published as CSV files, version 2, generated from the site’s physics modules (static/js/ovs/physics/) by scripts/generate-reference-tables.mjs rather than transcribed from the paper bodies; each file carries a generator line as its first row.

Changelog. 2026-09 — tables regenerated from the physics modules; see the Revision history section at the head of RB-003, RB-006 and RB-008 (v1.1, 2026-09-26). Version 1 (2026-02) was transcribed from the paper bodies; version 2 recomputes every cell from the papers’ printed formulas and RB-001 source parameters, which changes the hand-rounded standard-height velocity rows (18–48 inches) by up to about 5% for the four gas grills, the wood-fired grill and the high-setting pellet smoker (the largest percentage move is the high-output gas grill at 48 inches, 414 → 435 fpm) and by up to 13% of the revised value (11.5% of the v1.0 value) for the charcoal-kettle and low-setting pellet rows, moves the four RB-008 sources the papers list but the modules do not model (charcoal kettle high, kamado, wood-fired large, pellet medium) by up to 2.5%, shifts other CFM cells by at most a few CFM, and adds deflection columns to the RB-006 file.

12 research papers · 24 PDFs available

P0 — Foundation

Core physics and plume behavior

RB-001 P0
Buoyant Plume Behavior from BBQ Sources
RB-002 P0
Entrainment and Lateral Plume Spread
RB-003 P0
Velocity Decay and Capture Physics

P1 — Critical Design Factors

Hood sizing, CFM requirements, and failure modes

RB-004 P1
Why Indoor Assumptions Fail Outdoors
RB-005 P1
Hood Geometry and Capture Envelope
RB-006 P1
Wind Interaction and Cross-Flow Effects
RB-007 P1
Failure Mode Taxonomy for Outdoor Hoods
RB-008 P1
CFM Requirements for Outdoor Ventilation

P2 — Design Optimization

Advanced topics and system optimization

RB-009 P2
Side Panel Effects on Plume Containment
RB-010 P2
Blower Types and Exhaust Configurations
RB-011 P2
Grease Aerosol Transport and Deposition
RB-012 P2
Thermal Radiation at Hood Surfaces