In this article, we present the results of evaluation thermal performance a conventional home in dry warm climate, case study Bucaramanga, Colombia. This simulation, evaluation, and analysis make it necessary since currently area there is no assessment dwellings, which are old houses built with resistive mechanical analyses, but without regard to behavior or housing comfort. done by means softw...

Window-windcatchers, a passive ventilation method, have been shown to improve and enhance thermal comfort. Preliminary characterization of novel window-windcatcher has undertaken in previous work, but no relationship had identified between the actual rate (Qact), wind velocity (VTw) crucial design parameters such as fins angle (ϴ)). In this paper, that quantifies how window-windcatcher’s perfor...

The commonsense notion that personal characteristics influence how effectively we negotiate has presented researchers with a mystery: Throughout the decades, scholars have concluded that there are few reliable findings to support it. In this article, I review existing research as well as new research in which my colleagues and I join a growing minority revisiting this nearly abandoned topic. Th...

From the ASHRAE Global Thermal Comfort Database II, several researchers in East and South Asia utilized personal environmental variables to establish thermal comfort model. Body temperatures at locations were most input. The collected papers from 2003 2022 analyze progressive development of model by using VOSviewer. results indicate that scant research discusses relationship between multiple ph...

This paper presents generic equipment models that capture the performance of families of similar heat pumps equipment and that can be used in building simulation programs. Mapping has been carried out for families of single and dual compressor speed ducted split systems and the correlations are being implemented as components for building simulation. The units mapped ranged in nominal capacity ...

It is common to control several rooms in a building with a single sensor in one of the rooms and a single actuator driving just one control element such as an air damper. New, low-cost, wireless sensor technology now offers the opportunity to replace the single sensor in one room with a network of sensors where there is at least one sensor per room. This paper addresses this multi-sensor, singl...

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This article analyzes students' opinions about thermal comfort in air-conditioned classrooms. field study monitored and recorded the following variables: Air temperature (°C), Mean radiant Humidity (%), velocity (m/s). In addition, a survey was answered by 169 students to collect sensation preferences according ASHRAE sensory scale. The results show neutral found from votes 28.2°C with 98% of f...

Natural ventilation associated with a mechanical fan is feasible strategy to enhance thermal acceptability in warm weather. The ASHRAE-55 provides the increase for operative temperature proportional air speed while maintaining comfort. Conversely, range of informed values limited and little guidance fans provided. This work explores relationship between produced by ceiling fans, effectiveness d...