Evaluating thermal effects of internal courtyard in a tropical terrace house by computational simulation

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 887-893

  Sadafi, Nasibeh ^a   Salleh, Elias ^a   Haw, Lim Chin ^b   Jaafar, Zaky ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Heat gain; Internal courtyard; Terrace house; Thermal comfort; Tropical climate

Indexed keywords

BASELINE MODELS; COMFORT CONDITIONS; COMFORT PERFORMANCE; COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION; FIELD MEASUREMENT; HEAT GAINS; INTERNAL COURTYARD; NATURAL VENTILATION; RESIDENTIAL BUILDING; SHADING DEVICES; SIMULATION ANALYSIS; TERRACE HOUSE; THERMAL CONDITION; THERMAL PERFORMANCE; TROPICAL CLIMATES; VENTILATED SPACES;

HOUSES; LANDFORMS; SOIL CONSERVATION; THERMAL COMFORT; TROPICS;

HEATING;

EID: 79951508842     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2010.12.009     Document Type: Article

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