Balancing Comfort and Energy Use for Sustainable Buildings: Thermal Comfort Modeling using a Space-variant Manikin

European Journal of Sustainable Development Research

Emmanuel O. B. Ogedengbe¹  Idris B. Seidu¹  Marc A. Rosen² 

[1] University of Lagos, Akoka-Yaba, Lagos, NIGERIA;University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Ontario, CANADA

关键词: sustainable building;    thermal comfort;    building energy use;    finite volume method;    convective heat transfer;   

DOI  :  10.20897/ejosdr/63225

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Lectito Journals

【 摘 要 】

To help balance comfort and energy use in residential, institutional and commercial buildings in order to make them more sustainable, a thermal comfort model is coupled with a computational fluid dynamic approach. The developed tool provides an effective tool for demand side management of energy use in buildings. The asymmetrical thermal environment in a university cafeteria building is modeled, and a two dimensional numerical simulation is prepared separately of the thermal sensation in the cafeteria. A finite volume formulation is used to provide the temperature distribution around a space-variant manikin, which is in turn utilized to determine the convective heat transfer coefficients for the simulation of thermal sensation around the manikin.

【 授权许可】

CC BY