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A Thermal Comfort Modelling Framework for Urban Neighbourhoods: Tempo-Spatial Coupling of Building Energy and CFD Models

Aghamolaei, Reihaneh orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-5655-100X, Fallahpour, Marzieh, Zhang, Ruijun and Mirzaei, Parham A (2023) A Thermal Comfort Modelling Framework for Urban Neighbourhoods: Tempo-Spatial Coupling of Building Energy and CFD Models. In: International Conference on Building Energy and Environment, July, 2022, Montreal, Canada. ISBN 978-981-19-9822-5

More accurate tools are required to replicate urban climates to achieve healthy and comfortable urban environments. To this end, this study implements a novel high-resolution simulation framework to improve the OTC modelling by dynamic coupling of convective fluxes calculated by computational fluid dynamic (CFD) model, and dynamic building energy simulation (BES) for analyzing outdoor surface temperature of buildings. In addition, radiative fluxes emitted from building surfaces are coupled with latter models. The workflow is applied at the Grasshopper platform based on the results of ANSYS Fluent as the CFD and EnergyPlus as the BES tools. This framework is tested within a generic case study representing an urban neighbourhood. As a result of this framework, tempo-spatial values for OTC are achieved at each time-step of simulation and then compared with the OTC values from the traditional OTC modelling approach. Statistical analysis of results shows that the OTC valued predicted using the coupled method can change considerably compared to OTC results from traditional methods at the neighbourhood scale.
Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Outdoor thermal comfort; Tempo-spatial; Computational fluid dynamics; Building energy simulation
Subjects:Engineering > Mechanical engineering
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing
DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Published in: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Building Energy and Environment, Environmental Science and Engineering. Environmental Science and Engineering . Springer. ISBN 978-981-19-9822-5
Publisher:Springer
Official URL:https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-...
Copyright Information:Authors
ID Code:30292
Deposited On:18 Feb 2025 15:22 by Dr Reihaneh Aghamolaei . Last Modified 18 Feb 2025 15:22

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