1. Thermal behaviour of a building in its environment: Modelling, experimentation, and comparison.
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Rodler, Auline, Guernouti, Sihem, Musy, Marjorie, and Bouyer, Julien
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SENSITIVITY analysis , *ARCHITECTURE & energy conservation , *BUILDINGS & the environment , *THERMAL properties of buildings , *MICROCLIMATOLOGY - Abstract
A building influences its surrounding external environment, and its indoor environment is usually sensitive to its surroundings. In order to obtain a more accurate prediction of the indoor thermal behaviour of a building or a building stock, it is necessary to consider the interactions between the indoor and outdoor thermal environments. The modelling approach presented in this paper is based on a building energy model and the urban modelling tool SOLENE-Microclimat. A sensitivity analysis is undertaken to highlight the parameters which influence the performance of the building model. Then, the thermal indoor behaviour of a building is compared to in situ experimental measurements and the outdoor thermal environment is evaluated in terms of external surface temperatures. The model's accuracy and behaviour is evaluated and a crossover approach with the sensitivity analysis results is proposed. The model obtains a good level of performance for almost all variables, unless some external surface temperatures intervals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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