[HTML][HTML] Urban warming and cities' microclimates: Investigation methods and mitigation strategies—A review

S Tsoka, K Tsikaloudaki, T Theodosiou, D Bikas - Energies, 2020 - mdpi.com
The increased rates of urbanization and industrialization of the 20th and 21st centuries have
dramatically changed the land use and cover of modern cities, contributing to the …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating the combined effect of climate change and urban microclimate on buildings' heating and cooling energy demand in a mediterranean city

S Tsoka, K Velikou, K Tolika, A Tsikaloudaki - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
Climate change has a major impact on the urban built environment, both with respect to the
heating and cooling energy requirements, but also regarding the higher probability of …

Evaluating the impact of urban microclimate on buildings' heating and cooling energy demand using a co-simulation approach

S Tsoka - Atmosphere, 2023 - mdpi.com
The current research proposes an integrated computational method to consider the effect of
the urban microclimate and the higher urban air temperatures on the assessment of urban …

Dynamic Simulations of High-Energy Performance Buildings: The Role of Climatic Data and the Consideration of Climate Change

S Tsoka - Towards Net Zero Carbon Emissions in the Building …, 2022 - Springer
The prediction of buildings' energy demand through dynamic energy performance
simulation methods requires the input of climatic weather data that represent the typical …

Ventilative Cooling in Tertiary Buildings: A School Demo-Case and Parametric Analyses Under Swiss Climate Conditions (Central Europe)

F Flourentzou - Innovations in Ventilative Cooling, 2021 - Springer
This chapter focusses on the description of a school nearly-zero energy building (Minergie®
labelled), which was designed to include ventilative cooling strategies to guarantee summer …

Investigating the effect of summer night ventilation on the urban buildings' thermal and energy performance using numerical approaches

S Tsoka - IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The present study aims to evaluate by simulation means, the effect of different night
ventilations rates on the thermal and energy performance of typical building units, located in …