Journal
ENERGY
Volume 173, Issue -, Pages 75-91Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2019.02.062
Keywords
Building simulation; Computational fluid dynamics; Heat transfer; Heating and cooling load; Neighbourhood design; Decision tree
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Funding
- National Key R&D Program of China [2017YFC0702300, 2017YFC0702306]
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Neighbourhood form imposes complex effects on the local microclimate. The overlook of neighbourhood microclimate will lead to miscalculation of building energy performance. In this paper, a neighbourhood scale building simulation coupled between building energy simulation and CFD is proposed to assess the impact of external convective heat transfer coefficient (CHTC) to the building thermal performance. The co-simulation is run for different types of buildings inside the neighbourhood with different combinations of neighbourhood form parameters. The developed simulation scheme allows the iterations of neighbourhood design parameters and simulation model generation in CFD and EnergyPlus. Five empirical methods are used to predict CHTC, and the results of CHTC values, heating and cooling load intensity are compared in detail with the proposed CFD coupled method. The results suggest that the orientation and multiplier are crucial to the building load intensity in Chicago and the neighbourhood form can affect the thermal load of residential building up to about +27.1% and -18.6%, and +17.2% and -7.7% for office buildings. The proposed method and framework in this paper is capable of generating design guidelines for the optimal energy performance of the buildings in the neighbourhood. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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