Monte Carlo simulations of radiative heat exchange in a street canyon with trees

Solar Energy

Volumn 110, Issue , 2014, Pages 704-713

  Wang, Zhi Hua ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Building energy consumption; Monte Carlo method; Radiative heat transfer; View factors

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY UTILIZATION; FORESTRY; HEAT TRANSFER; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ANALYTICAL FORMULATION; BUILDING ENERGY CONSUMPTION; GEOMETRIC REPRESENTATION; PHYSICAL PARAMETERIZATION; RADIATIVE HEAT EXCHANGE; RADIATIVE HEAT TRANSFER; URBAN CLIMATE MODELING; VIEW FACTOR;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE MODELING; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY USE; HEAT FLUX; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NEW RECORD; RADIATIVE FORCING; STOCHASTICITY; STREET CANYON; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; URBAN CLIMATE; WOODY PLANT;

BUILDINGS; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENVIRONMENTS; FOREST CANOPY; SIMULATION; TREES;

EID: 84910620048     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2014.10.012     Document Type: Article

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