- Title
- Alternative method to the replication of wind effects into the buildings thermal simulation
- Creator
- Albatayneh, Aiman; Alterman, Dariusz; Page, Adrian; Moghtaderi, Behdad
- Relation
- Buildings Vol. 10, Issue 12, no. 237
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings10120237
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- To design energy-efficient buildings, energy assessment programs need to be developed for determining the inside air temperature, so that thermal comfort of the occupant can be sustained. The internal temperatures could be calculated through computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis; however, miniscule time steps (seconds and milliseconds) are used by a long-term simulation (i.e., weeks, months) that require excessive time for computing wind effects results even for high-performance personal computers. This paper examines a new method, wherein the wind effect surrounding the buildings is integrated with the external air temperature to facilitate wind simulation in building analysis over long periods. This was done with the help of an equivalent temperature (known as Tnatural), where the convection heat loss is produced in an equal capacity by this air temperature and by the built-in wind effects. Subsequently, this new external air temperature Tnatural can be used to calculate the internal air temperature. Upon inclusion of wind effects, above 90% of the results were found to be within 0–3 °C of the perceived temperatures compared to the real data (99% for insulated cavity brick (InsCB), 91% for cavity brick (CB), 93% for insulated reverse brick veneer (InsRBV) and 94% for insulated brick veneer (InsBV) modules). However, a decline of 83–88% was observed in the results after ignoring the wind effects. Hence, the presence of wind effects holds greater importance in correct simulation of the thermal performance of the modules. Moreover, the simulation time will expectedly reduce to below 1% of the original simulation time.
- Subject
- building simulation; computational fluid dynamics (CFD); wind effect; building thermal performance; low-energy buildings
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1427731
- Identifier
- uon:38562
- Identifier
- ISSN:2075-5309
- Rights
- © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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