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Integrated Vegetation Model For Studying The Cooling Potential Of Trees In Urban Street Canyons, Lento Manickathan, Aytaç Kubilay, Thijs Defraeye, Jonas Allegrini, Dominique Derome, Jan Carmeliet
Integrated Vegetation Model For Studying The Cooling Potential Of Trees In Urban Street Canyons, Lento Manickathan, Aytaç Kubilay, Thijs Defraeye, Jonas Allegrini, Dominique Derome, Jan Carmeliet
International Building Physics Conference 2018
Vegetation in cities provides natural cooling of the climate and is therefore increasingly integrated as an essential part of Urban Heat Island (UHI) mitigation strategies. In the present study, the influence of trees on the local climate in a street canyon is studied using an integrated vegetation model in OpenFOAM. Vegetation is modeled as porous medium providing the necessary source terms for the heat, mass and momentum fluxes. Additionally, a radiation model is developed to model the short-wave and long-wave radiative heat flux exchanges between vegetation and the surroundings. The study investigates the influence of transpirative and shaded cooling due …
Numerical Investigation Of A Diffuse Ventilation Ceiling System For Buildings With Natural And Hybrid Ventilation, Alessandro Nocente, Francesco Goia, Steinar Grynning
Numerical Investigation Of A Diffuse Ventilation Ceiling System For Buildings With Natural And Hybrid Ventilation, Alessandro Nocente, Francesco Goia, Steinar Grynning
International Building Physics Conference 2018
The need to meet requirements, both in terms of ventilation and thermal comfort in modern buildings, has led to the development of different concepts for ventilation, among which the so-called Diffuse Ceiling Ventilation (DCV). This system makes use of the space between the ceiling slabs and the suspended ceiling as a plenum for fresh air, while the suspended ceiling itself becomes an air diffuser element. If compared to traditional solutions, this allows a higher amount of ventilation air to be injected in the room at lower speed, and a more even distribution of the fresh air within the room. Furthermore, …
Studying The Impact Of Local Urban Heat Islands On The Space Cooling Demand Of Buildings Using Coupled Cfd And Building Energy Simulations, Jonas Allegrini, Jan Carmeliet
Studying The Impact Of Local Urban Heat Islands On The Space Cooling Demand Of Buildings Using Coupled Cfd And Building Energy Simulations, Jonas Allegrini, Jan Carmeliet
International Building Physics Conference 2018
Surface as well as air temperatures are due to the urban heat island effect higher in urban compared to their surrounding rural areas. These increased temperatures have a strong impact on the building energy performance in urban environments and thermal comfort as well as health of inhabitants of these environments. At smaller scales, local heat islands are formed within urban environments, which have the same negative impacts. In this study, we investigate the influence of local heat islands on the space cooling demand of buildings. Commonly, climate information from one weather station is used for building performance simulations within a …
Numerical Analysis Of The Influencing Factors On The Performance Of A Pipe-Embedded Window Operated In Summer, Sihang Jiang, Chong Shen, Xianting Li
Numerical Analysis Of The Influencing Factors On The Performance Of A Pipe-Embedded Window Operated In Summer, Sihang Jiang, Chong Shen, Xianting Li
International Building Physics Conference 2018
The pipe-embedded window is a double window structure with pipes embedded inside the cavity to adjust the temperature. The preliminary studies showed that it can significantly reduce the cooling load of buildings with natural cooling sources such as the water from cooling towers in summer. However, the research on the influencing factors of the pipeembedded window is insufficient. In this paper, the numerical calculation models are established for a pipe-embedded window and a traditional window. The influence of climatic factors, such as the natural cooling source temperature and outdoor air temperature on the thermal performance of the pipe-embedded window are …
Numerical Analysis Of A Ground-Source Heat-Pump System In Traditional Japanese “Kyo-Machiya” Dwellings, Shun Takano, Chiemi Iba, Shuichi Hokoi
Numerical Analysis Of A Ground-Source Heat-Pump System In Traditional Japanese “Kyo-Machiya” Dwellings, Shun Takano, Chiemi Iba, Shuichi Hokoi
International Building Physics Conference 2018
Kyo-machiya, which is a traditional wooden dwelling in Kyoto, is generally equipped with a shallow well. The well water can be potentially utilized as a heat source with a geothermal heatpump system without incurring a high drilling cost. Hereby, more energy saving in the traditional dwelling can be realized with the heat-pump system. However, an appropriate technique to utilize geothermal heat from a shallow well has not been established yet in Japan. To promote the geothermal use, we have continued an experiment to evaluate the practicability of a simple geothermal heat-pump system installed in a shallow well since the winter …