Thermal comfort assessment and potential for energy efficiency enhancement in modern tropical buildings: A review

QJ Kwong, NM Adam, BB Sahari - Energy and buildings, 2014 - Elsevier
The rapid growth in population and economy activities in the tropical countries has led to an
increase in energy consumption which hastens the depletion of available energy resources …

[HTML][HTML] Natural ventilation of large air masses: Experimental and numerical techniques review

R Mateus, JMC Pereira, A Pinto - Energy and Buildings, 2023 - Elsevier
Natural Ventilation (NV) contributes to the energy performance and Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)
of existing buildings and Nearly Zero Energy Buildings (NZEB). To predict and validate the …

Evaluation of thermal comfort using combined CFD and experimentation study in a test room equipped with a cooling ceiling

T Catalina, J Virgone, F Kuznik - Building and environment, 2009 - Elsevier
This paper reports a full-scale experimental campaign and a computational fluid dynamics
(CFD) study of a radiant cooling ceiling installed in a test room, under controlled conditions …

Evaluation of cooling ceiling and mechanical ventilation systems on thermal comfort using CFD study in an office for subtropical region

WH Chiang, CY Wang, JS Huang - Building and Environment, 2012 - Elsevier
Radiant cooling ceiling systems have already been proven to potentially provide an
improved thermal comfort environment. This work conducted a full-scale experiment in an …

Examination of thermal comfort in a hospital using PMV–PPD model

A Pourshaghaghy, M Omidvari - Applied ergonomics, 2012 - Elsevier
In this study, the performance of air conditioning system and the level of thermal comfort are
determined in a state hospital located in Kermanshah city in the west of Iran in winter and …

[HTML][HTML] A post-occupancy study of ventilation effectiveness from high-resolution CO2 monitoring at live theatre events to mitigate airborne transmission of SARS-CoV …

F Adzic, BM Roberts, EA Hathway, RK Matharu… - Building and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Mass-gathering events were closed around the world in 2020 to minimise the spread of the
SARS-CoV-2 virus. Emerging research on the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 emphasised the …

Combining EnergyPlus and CFD to predict and optimize the passive ventilation mode of medium-sized gymnasium in subtropical regions

W Guo, S Liang, Y He, W Li, B **ong, H Wen - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Thermal stratification is considered to be common in large space buildings, which
constitutes a complex indoor thermal environment of gymnasiums. In consideration of the …

Prediction of indoor conditions and thermal comfort using CFD simulations: A case study based on experimental data

C Buratti, D Palladino, E Moretti - Energy Procedia, 2017 - Elsevier
In the present paper CFD tool was used for thermal comfort evaluation in natural convection
and in transient conditions in a room by setting only the external weather conditions as input …

Thermal-comfort optimization design method for semi-outdoor stadium using machine learning

R Zhang, D Liu, L Shi - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Improving the thermal comfort of spectators is an important aspect of the semi-outdoor
stadium design procedure. Although previous studies provided suggestions, a valid …

CFD study of the thermal environment in an air-conditioned train station building

Q Li, H Yoshino, A Mochida, B Lei, Q Meng… - Building and …, 2009 - Elsevier
This study used the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method to evaluate the indoor
thermal environment of an air-conditioned train station building under three types of air …