A coupled method to assess outdoor thermal environment in housing communities

10th International Conference on Healthy Buildings 2012

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages 2355-2360

  Lai, Dayi ^b   Liu, Sumei ^b   Liu, Junjie ^a   Zhou, Chaobin ^b   Chen, Qingyan ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Human factor; Outdoor thermal comfort; Radiation modeling; Residential community

Indexed keywords

OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT; OUTDOOR THERMAL COMFORT; OUTDOOR THERMAL ENVIRONMENT; PREDICTED MEAN VOTE; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; RADIATION MODELING; RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITIES; THERMAL COMFORT INDEX;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; THERMAL COMFORT;

HOUSING;

EID: 84883441701     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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