Thermal zoning and interzonal airflow in the design and simulation of solar houses: A sensitivity analysis

Journal of Building Performance Simulation

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 239-256

  O'Brien, William ^a   Athienitis, Andreas ^a   Kesik, Ted ^b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Airflow; Building energy simulation; Passive solar houses; Thermal comfort; Thermal zoning

Indexed keywords

AIR CIRCULATION; AIR SYSTEMS; AIRFLOW; BUILDING ENERGY SIMULATION; BUILDING PERFORMANCE; DESIGN AND SIMULATION; ENERGY PERFORMANCE; OPTIMAL DESIGN; PASSIVE SOLAR; PERFORMANCE OF BUILDINGS; SOLAR GAIN; SOLAR HEAT GAINS; SOLAR HOUSE; THERMAL ZONING; TOTAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION;

ENERGY UTILIZATION; HEATING; OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLAR BUILDINGS; SOLAR HEATING; THERMAL COMFORT; ZONING;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 79960501500     PISSN: 19401493     EISSN: 19401507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19401493.2010.528031     Document Type: Article

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