LoginThe main objective of this study is to develop a thermal comfort (TC) prediction model suitable for Naturally Ventilated (NV) buildings located in hot and humid tropical climate. More than 1000 data were collected through extensive field survey in Singapore and Indonesia. The surveys finding based on the statistical analyses unveiled that people in the tropics have shown tolerance and different perception of TC than those in the temperate climate. Fuzzy logic concept is adopted to develop an appropriate TC model for tropical NV houses. The complexities of the human cognitive process and the vagueness of linguistic expression are considered in defining their fuzzy membership function. Fuzzy logic rule based model is used to represent human evaluation and perception processes in algorithmic form. A detail exposition of the application which combined the linguistic approach and optimization under multiple thermal condition criteria is presented.
A fuzzy logic approach in thermal comfort modelling for naturally ventilated house in tropics
Year:
2003
Bibliographic info:
Healthy Buildings 2003 - Proceedings 7th International Conference (7th-11th December 2003) - National University of Singapore - Vol. 1., pp 798-803, 13 Fig, 1 Tab., 7 Ref.