Thermal comfort and environmental modelling in atrium buildings

PLEA 2006 - 23rd International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture, Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Li, Rong ^a   Pitts, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atrium; Comfort; Modelling

Indexed keywords

AIR FLOW; AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR VELOCITIES; ATRIUM; ATRIUM BUILDINGS; BUILDING SPACES; CFD ANALYSIS; COMFORT; COMFORT LEVEL; COMPLEX NATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING; MEAN RADIANT TEMPERATURE; MODERN ARCHITECTURES; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; STACK EFFECT; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; TEMPERATURE STRATIFICATION; THERMAL ENVIRONMENT; THERMAL SENSATIONS;

AIR; ARCHITECTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MODELS; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN;

THERMAL COMFORT;

EID: 84865721565     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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