1. Building heating and cooling load under different neighbourhood forms: Assessing the effect of external convective heat transfer
- Author
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Wei Dong, Mingkun Dai, Peng Xu, and Pengyuan Shen
- Subjects
Convective heat transfer ,business.industry ,020209 energy ,Mechanical Engineering ,Cooling load ,Microclimate ,02 engineering and technology ,Building and Construction ,Structural engineering ,Heat transfer coefficient ,Computational fluid dynamics ,Pollution ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering ,General Energy ,020401 chemical engineering ,Thermal ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Environmental science ,Multiplier (economics) ,0204 chemical engineering ,Electrical and Electronic Engineering ,business ,Building energy simulation ,Civil and Structural Engineering - Abstract
Neighbourhood form imposes complex effects on the local microclimate. The overlook of neighbourhood microclimate will lead to miscalculation of building energy performance. In this paper, a neighbourhood-scale building simulation coupled between building energy simulation and CFD is proposed to assess the impact of external convective heat transfer coefficient (CHTC) to the building thermal performance. The co-simulation is run for different types of buildings inside the neighbourhood with different combinations of neighbourhood form parameters. The developed simulation scheme allows the iterations of neighbourhood design parameters and simulation model generation in CFD and EnergyPlus. Five empirical methods are used to predict CHTC, and the results of CHTC values, heating and cooling load intensity are compared in detail with the proposed CFD coupled method. The results suggest that the orientation and multiplier are crucial to the building load intensity in Chicago and the neighbourhood form can affect the thermal load of residential building up to about +27.1% and −18.6%, and +17.2% and −7.7% for office buildings. The proposed method and framework in this paper is capable of generating design guidelines for the optimal energy performance of the buildings in the neighbourhood.
- Published
- 2019