Solving the matter of traditional energy consumption and finding the proper alternative
resources are vital keys to a sustainable development policy. In recent years, many different …

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) …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …