Conference Paper

Proceedings of Building Simulation 2021: 17th Conference of IBPSA

     

Comparative thermal performance analysis of a shaded and non-shaded Double Skin Façade in hot arid areas.

Yomna Saad Elghazi 1,2, Neveen Hamza 1, Martyn Dade-Robertson 1
1 Newcastle University, United Kingdom
2 Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport, Cairo, Egypt.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.26868/25222708.2021.30685
Abstract: This paper studies the impact of changing layering configurations, cavity widths and shading apertures of a shading system on the inner cavity surface temperatures of a double skin facade (DSF) in a hot arid climate. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) thermo-fluiddynamics modelling is used by coupling RNG k-epsilon turbulence model with Discrete Ordinate (DO) radiation and solar ray-tracing model. The optimized DSF is tested on a peak summer and winter day, at 9:00am, 12:00pm and 15:00pm. A flat-shading with 3 aperture sizes (30%, 50% & 70%) is tested to reduce internal surface heat gains.
Keywords: CFD, DSF, Simulation, Cavity-integrated solar-shading
Pages: 1888 - 1895
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bs2021_30685