Artículo
Thermal comfort modelling and empirical validation of predicted air temperaturein hot-summer Mediterranean courtyards
Autor/es | López Cabeza, Victoria Patricia
Diz Mellado, Eduardo María Rivera-Gómez, Carlos Galán-Marín, Carmen Samuelson, Holly |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Construcciones Arquitectónicas I (ETSA) |
Fecha de publicación | 2022 |
Fecha de depósito | 2023-05-16 |
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Resumen | Courtyards are a passive strategy to improve the energy performance of buildings. However, theaccurate simulation of courtyards’ thermodynamic performance in the early design stage is still chal-lenging, even though there ... Courtyards are a passive strategy to improve the energy performance of buildings. However, theaccurate simulation of courtyards’ thermodynamic performance in the early design stage is still chal-lenging, even though there has been an emergence of new methods to assess outdoor simulation.This paper tests a novel workflow using the Ladybug Tools that uses CFD for outdoor temperatureand comfort simulation of courtyards and is suitable for the early stage of building design, compar-ing the results with monitored data and simulated data from ENVI-met. Results show high accuracyin the prediction of temperature from Ladybug Tools with error ranges from 3.8–7.5%, which is lowerthan with ENVI-met. In terms of comfort, the simulated Universal Thermal Climate Index values differby up to 10°C between ENVI-met and the Ladybug Tools. The results show a significant improvementtowards the design of the courtyard in the search for net-zero energy buildings. |
Cita | López Cabeza, V.P., Diz Mellado, E.M., Rivera-Gómez, C., Galán-Marín, C. y Samuelson, H. (2022). Thermal comfort modelling and empirical validation of predicted air temperaturein hot-summer Mediterranean courtyards. Journal of Building Performance Simulation, 15 (1), 39-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/19401493.2021.2001571. |
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