Balancing Comfort and Energy Use for Sustainable Buildings: Thermal Comfort Modeling using a Space-variant Manikin

Journal Title: European Journal of Sustainable Development Research - Year 2018, Vol 2, Issue 1

Abstract

To help balance comfort and energy use in residential, institutional and commercial buildings in order to make them more sustainable, a thermal comfort model is coupled with a computational fluid dynamic approach. The developed tool provides an effective tool for demand side management of energy use in buildings. The asymmetrical thermal environment in a university cafeteria building is modeled, and a two dimensional numerical simulation is prepared separately of the thermal sensation in the cafeteria. A finite volume formulation is used to provide the temperature distribution around a space-variant manikin, which is in turn utilized to determine the convective heat transfer coefficients for the simulation of thermal sensation around the manikin.

Authors and Affiliations

Emmanuel O. B. Ogedengbe, Idris B. Seidu, Marc A. Rosen

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  • EP ID EP314823
  • DOI 10.20897/ejosdr/63225
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Emmanuel O. B. Ogedengbe, Idris B. Seidu, Marc A. Rosen (2018). Balancing Comfort and Energy Use for Sustainable Buildings: Thermal Comfort Modeling using a Space-variant Manikin. European Journal of Sustainable Development Research, 2(1), 1-14. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-314823