An application of the thermo-radiative model SOLENE for the evaluation of street canyon energy balance

Building and Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1262-1275

  Idczak, Marcin ^a,b   Groleau, Dominique ^c   Mestayer, Patrice ^b   Rosant, Jean Michel ^b   Sini, Jean François ^b  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b LABORATOIRE DE MÉCANIQUE DES FLUIDES   (France)

^c CERMA UMR CNRS 1563   (France)

Author keywords

Energy balance; Street canyon; Surface temperature; Thermo radiative model

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ENERGY BALANCE; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECIFIC HEAT; STEEL CONTAINERS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ENERGY BALANCE ANALYSIS; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; METEOROLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION MEASUREMENTS; RADIATIVE MODELING; STREET CANYON; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALBEDO; AMBIENT AIR; CLEAR SKY; ENERGY BALANCE; HEAT CAPACITY; LONGWAVE RADIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SOLAR RADIATION; STREET CANYON; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 74149085304     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2009.11.011     Document Type: Article

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