Performance evaluation of passive cooling in office buildings based on uncertainty and sensitivity analysis

Solar Energy

Volumn 84, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1453-1467

  Breesch, H ^a,b   Janssens, A ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b ODISEE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Passive cooling

Indexed keywords

BUILDING ENERGY SIMULATIONS; BUILDING STRUCTURE; CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; CROSS VENTILATION; DECISION PROCESS; DESIGN DATA; DISCHARGE COEFFICIENTS; DOMINANT SET; DRIVING FORCES; HIGH PROBABILITY; INDOOR CLIMATE; INPUT PARAMETER; INTERNAL HEAT; MODERATE CLIMATE; NATURAL NIGHT VENTILATION; NIGHT VENTILATION; OUTDOOR TEMPERATURE; PASSIVE COOLING; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; RECURRENCE TIME; RELIABLE OPERATION; ROBUST SOLUTIONS; SET-POINT TEMPERATURES; SOLAR HEAT GAIN COEFFICIENT; STANDARD WEATHER DATA; THERMAL MASS; THERMO-PHYSICAL PROPERTY; TRANSIENT SIMULATION; VENTILATION STRATEGY; WARMING CLIMATE; WEATHER CONDITIONS; WEATHER DATA; WIND PRESSURE COEFFICIENT;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DESIGN; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; METEOROLOGY; NEONATAL MONITORING; OFFICE BUILDINGS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPACE HEATING; THERMAL COMFORT; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; VENTILATION; WIND EFFECTS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BUILDING; COOLING; DATA SET; DESIGN; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VENTILATION;

EID: 77954312607     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2010.05.008     Document Type: Article

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