LoginIn this work two numerical models are presented. The first one simulates the buildings thermal response and evaluates the internal air quality, while the second one simulates the human and clothing thermal systems and calculates the thermal comfor
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This study is aimed to contribute to energy saving and to achieve the indoor thermal comfort by preventing the down draft along the window in building with less heating energy than the common equipment, e.g. FCU.
Occupant responsive optimal control is developed for so called smart façade systems.
This paper draws the attention to the importance of a correct modelling of the inlet temperature of naturally and mechanically ventilated multiple-skin facades.
The present paper addresses and fosters the factors that affect airflow movement and energy efficiencies in the surgical operating theatres.
Since buildings have a predominant impact on the global climate change and other environmental issues, it has become necessary to consider environmental performance in building design.
A study by Reinhart and Herkel showed term predictions of daylight availability in architectural spaces should take the conditions of all individual time steps into account.
Experimental studies in building energy usage and environmental analysis are very time consuming and expensive, and require sophisticated sensors and instrumentation techniques.
This paper describes a performance-based evolution model using GA as the evolution algorithm and CFD as the evaluation mechanism.
The evaluation of shading devices is generally carried out using a sequence of shadow pattern images showing the progression of solar penetration for particular times of the day or year.
In this study, formulae for predicting projected area factors and view factors of individual body parts of standing and sedentary humans for detailed radiation analysis were developed.
It is necessary for fire safety that in case of a flash-over situation, the windows in the outer skin would break very fast and before the windows in the inner façade would break, so that the model of Law is valid in which case the NEN 6068 could
A preliminary investigation is made into the global variation in irradiance under the Clear, the Intermediate (partly cloudy) and the Overcast sky conditions (Nakamura et. al., 1986, 1987).
The international building physics toolbox (IBPT) is a software library specially constructed for HAM system analysis in building physics.
Four areas in Texas have been designated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as non-attainment areas because ozone levels exceed the NAAQS1 maximum allowable limits.
Radiant heating and cooling, including building component embedded systems, have become a common heating and/or cooling technology in the recent few years.
The validation and development of turbulence models are still important issues related to Computa- tional Fluid Dynamics for ventilation purposes. The present work continues the work initiated by (Voigt, 2002).
Two room air conditioners were modeled in order to predict the total cooling capacity, the sensible cooling capacity and the Energy Efficiency Ratio (E.E.R.) of each appliance.
This paper presents "Scythe and Sew", a software environment for analyzing lighting simulation data. It provides a spreadsheet like infrastructure for manipulating high-dimensional simulation results.
The purpose of this paper is to explain the indoor thermal radiation environment of the human body in detail. Using a 3-D human body model, shape factor calculations between a human body and surroundings are executed.