Indoor thermal environmental conditions near glazed facades with shading devices - Part I: Experiments and building thermal model

Building and Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2506-2516

  Bessoudo, M ^a   Tzempelikos, A ^b   Athienitis, A K ^a   Zmeureanu, R ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Building simulation; Facades; Indoor thermal environmen; Shading

Indexed keywords

BUILDING ENVELOPES; BUILDING SIMULATION; BUILDING THERMAL MODELS; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; CLOUDY DAYS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL INDEX; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; GLASS FACADES; GLASS SURFACE TEMPERATURE; OPERATIVE TEMPERATURE; OUTDOOR TEMPERATURE; RADIANT TEMPERATURES; SHADING DEVICES; SHADING SYSTEMS; THERMAL ENVIRONMENT; THERMAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; TILT ANGLE; VENETIAN BLIND;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FACADES; GLASS; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT);

BUILDINGS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; ASYMMETRY; BUILDING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INDOOR AIR; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHADING; VENTILATION;

EID: 77954216454     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2010.05.013     Document Type: Article

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