A methodology to evaluate the indoor natural ventilation in hot climates: Heat Balance Index
| Autor: | Guadalupe Huelsz, J.A. Castillo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Work (thermodynamics)
Environmental Engineering Index (economics) 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Meteorology Computer simulation business.industry 020209 energy Geography Planning and Development Thermal comfort Natural ventilation 02 engineering and technology Building and Construction Computational fluid dynamics 01 natural sciences Range (aeronautics) Heat transfer 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Environmental science business 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Civil and Structural Engineering |
| Zdroj: | Building and Environment. 114:366-373 |
| ISSN: | 0360-1323 |
| Popis: | Natural ventilation is an alternative to create comfortable and healthy indoor conditions. This work presents the development of a methodology to evaluate the thermal comfort produced by indoor natural ventilation in hot climates. This methodology includes the definition of the Heat Balance Index, H B I . It is based on models of the heat transfer of the human body to the surroundings. To estimate the comfort evaporation term a correlation between the Heat Balance Index (HBI) and the Predicted Mean Value (PMV) was made. The H B I gives the comfort air velocity range, which is useful to calculate the well-ventilated percentage of an indoor space for an specific climate condition in hot climates. A numerical simulation of a cross ventilated building is used as an application example. The numerical simulation is solved by using Computational Fluid Dynamics and is validated with experimental results. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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