Effects of shelterbelt trees on reducing heating-energy consumption of office buildings in Scotland

Applied Energy

Volumn 85, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 115-127

  Liu, Y ^a   Harris, D J ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational simulation; Heating energy consumption; Office buildings; Shelterbelt trees; Wind speed reduction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; OFFICE BUILDINGS;

HEATING-ENERGY CONSUMPTION; SHELTERBELT TREES; WIND-SPEED REDUCTION;

FORESTRY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; FORESTRY; OFFICE BUILDINGS;

BUILDING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY USE; HEATING; MODELING; OFFICE LOCATION; SHELTERBELT; TREE;

BUILDINGS; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; FORESTRY; SIMULATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 35548970830     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2007.06.008     Document Type: Article

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