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House & Home Physics

Chimney Draft (Stack Effect)

ΔP = C·h·(1/T_out − 1/T_in)
Chimney Draft (Stack Effect)

A fireplace pulls its own air: warm flue gas is lighter than cold outside air, so a taller chimney on a colder day generates more upward draft.

Computed & rendered in pure C# on the frozen OnlyCSharp 1.8 library — animation baked to GIF with the library's own Gif encoder (no GPU, no ffmpeg, no external packages).