This article provides an overview of the application of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in building performance simulation for the outdoor environment, focused on four topics:(1) …
JA Palyvos - Applied thermal engineering, 2008 - Elsevier
The thermal losses to the ambient from a building surface or a roof mounted solar collector represent an important portion of the overall energy balance and depend heavily on the …
Convective heat transfer at exterior building surfaces has an impact on the design and performance of building components such as double-skin facades, solar collectors, solar …
J Bouyer, C Inard, M Musy - Energy and buildings, 2011 - Elsevier
To streamline the design of the energy efficient buildings, appropriate tools are needed to assess their energy performance taking into account the microclimatic context. Numerical …
R Albatici, AM Tonelli - Energy and Buildings, 2010 - Elsevier
Due to new regulations in the field of energy saving, international standards concerning energy requirements of buildings have been developed. In this field, during the design …
The thermal behaviour of a building is often underestimated or neglected during its construction and operation stages. In recent years, the heat flux meter (HFM) method has …
High-resolution 3D steady RANS CFD simulations of forced convective heat transfer at the facades of a low-rise cubic (10× 10× 10m3) building are performed to determine convective …
Large eddy simulation (LES) is widely used to investigate the aerodynamics and convective heat transfer (CHT) at the surfaces of sharp-edged bluff bodies for a wide range of Reynolds …
N Nazarian, J Kleissl - Building and Environment, 2016 - Elsevier
Numerical fluid flow and heat transfer simulations of a three-dimensional idealized urban environment are performed to investigate the effect of realistic non-uniform thermal forcing …