In the last decade, the analysis of shading or sunlight in architectural projects has become
an important role in improving building thermal and lighting performances. Selecting an …

In urban climate or thermal comfort, radiative exchanges are often expressed in terms of
Mean Radiant Temperature. Considering that a single temperature does not properly …

We present a new graphical representation of multiple reflections for the acoustic
refurbishment of rooms with low clarity values. This representation shows the spatial …

Ce travail de thèse porte sur l'optimisation de formes urbaines par rapport au potentiel
solaire. L'objectif est d'améliorer notre connaissance des meilleures formes urbaines, d'une …

Around 2030, world cities will have six billion inhabitants, whereas they had just a few tens
of millions only two centuries ago. This very rapid urbanization is the most striking feature of …

The work presented here has consisted in placing a thermal camera in a street of the “Petit
Bayonne,” one of the densest districts of French cities, in order to obtain a double sequence …

Urban physics is seeking its place between two better structured scales, that of
environmental physics and that of building physics. The intermediate level of the city and the …

Since the first glass tower in Manhattan, the Lever House, was built about 70 years ago,
entire neighborhoods of smooth façades have appeared in every major city in the world. The …

The aim of this work is to show that the use of a ray tracing method based on stratified Monte
Carlo with cells of equal area and equal aspect ratio gives the most convincing results in …

The paper presents a compact Matlab implementation of a finite element code performing
dual analysis of heat conduction problems. After a short presentation of the concerned …