A study on a porous residential building model in hot and humid regions: Part 1 - The natural ventilation performance and the cooling load reduction effect of the building model

Building and Environment

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 21-32

  Hirano, Tomoko ^a   Kato, Shinsuke ^a   Murakami, Shuzo ^b   Ikaga, Toshiharu ^c   Shiraishi, Yasuyuki ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Nikken Sekkei Ltd   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KITAKYUSHU   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics analysis; Cooling load; Hot and humid regions; Natural ventilation; Thermal and airflow network analysis; Void

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COOLING; ENERGY UTILIZATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROSITY;

AIRFLOW; COOLING LOAD REDUCTION EFFECTS; HOT REGIONS; HUMID REGIONS; NATURAL VENTILATION; RESIDENTIAL BUILDING MODEL; THERMAL NETWORK ANALYSIS;

VENTILATION;

AIRFLOW; BUILDING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; VENTILATION;

EID: 24644487002     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2005.01.018     Document Type: Article

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