Building envelopes consist of transparent and non-transparent components, and pose
distinct opportunities and challenges in energy conservation. Glazing envelopes, which are …

The retrofit of building envelopes in rural areas is a necessary measure to reduce building
energy consumption. However, the traditional retrofit strategy is mostly a subjective decision …

More and more public buildings have functional zones without physical partitioning, and non-
uniform thermal environments often exist inside it. Understanding this phenomenon and its …

The protective energy-saving retrofitting (PESR) of heritage buildings (HBs) is one of the
essential aspects of building carbon-dioxide abatement. The present work validates and …

Thermal performance of window frame and glazing pane are significant for its energy
saving. In the present work, the energy consumption of various windows in the rural …

This article explores optical and thermal characteristics of different colored stained glasses
extensively found in historic religious architectures. Solar-optical and color rendering …

In conventional glazing windows filled with phase change material (PCM), the type of PCM
is usually chosen as a solid-liquid PCM, resulting the potential leakage problems in its …

Binary nanoparticles may effectively improve photothermal properties of the phase change
material (PCM) to expand its application in solar energy, especially in energy-saving …

Due to their significant impact on worldwide energy consumption, buildings have emerged
as the primary focus of current studies on the subject of energy conservation. Glass …

This work numerically investigated free convective heat transfer between water in a tank and
melted paraffin-wax in an enclosure mounted inside the tank. The mediums were separated …