TY - JOUR
T1 - A study on a porous residential building model in hot and humid regions
T2 - Part 1 - The natural ventilation performance and the cooling load reduction effect of the building model
AU - Hirano, Tomoko
AU - Kato, Shinsuke
AU - Murakami, Shuzo
AU - Ikaga, Toshiharu
AU - Shiraishi, Yasuyuki
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by the Research for the Future Program by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. We would like to express profound appreciation to all those concerned.
Copyright:
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2006/1
Y1 - 2006/1
N2 - This study targets environmental load reduction in hot and humid regions. It reveals the effects that porous residential buildings have on the natural ventilation performance and, consequently, the cooling load reduction. Two residential building models, namely a model with a void ratio of 0% and a model with a void ratio of 50%, are evaluated using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis and thermal and airflow network analysis. The analysis on components of the heat load indicates that improvements in the natural ventilation performance would significantly reduce the cooling load.
AB - This study targets environmental load reduction in hot and humid regions. It reveals the effects that porous residential buildings have on the natural ventilation performance and, consequently, the cooling load reduction. Two residential building models, namely a model with a void ratio of 0% and a model with a void ratio of 50%, are evaluated using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis and thermal and airflow network analysis. The analysis on components of the heat load indicates that improvements in the natural ventilation performance would significantly reduce the cooling load.
KW - Computational fluid dynamics analysis
KW - Cooling load
KW - Hot and humid regions
KW - Natural ventilation
KW - Thermal and airflow network analysis
KW - Void
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U2 - 10.1016/j.buildenv.2005.01.018
DO - 10.1016/j.buildenv.2005.01.018
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:24644487002
SN - 0360-1323
VL - 41
SP - 21
EP - 32
JO - Building and Environment
JF - Building and Environment
IS - 1
ER -