Conference Paper

Proceedings of Building Simulation 2021: 17th Conference of IBPSA

     

A methodology for generating a synthetic local urban climate weather profile for building energy simulations in hot arid areas

Mohamed elnabawi Mahgoub 1, Neveen Hamza 2
1 Applied Science University, Bahrain
2 Newcastle University, UK

DOI: https://doi.org/10.26868/25222708.2021.30356
Abstract: A well-designed build up environment should include thermally comfortable outdoor spaces as well as low energy and thermally comfortable buildings, this paper aims to evaluate a coupling method between ENVI-met 4 as a microclimate model and IESVE as a Building Energy Modelling (BEM) software. The ENVI-met calculation for the outdoor microclimate conditions is used to specify the thermal boundary conditions for the building simulation modelling to give a realistic building energy consumption profile. The results revealed that the energy simulation using the generated ‘urban specific weather datasets' (USWDs) performed better than the one using the weather file obtained from the international weather station with only 6% deviation against 15% compared to the actual electricity consumption
Keywords: Computational fluid dynamics (CFD), building energy modeling (BEM), outdoor thermal comfort
Pages: 1459 - 1465
Paper:

bs2021_30356