Climate change represents a vital public health challenge, resulting in serious impacts that
require passive strategies in the built environment sector to mitigate such impacts. Such …

The process of a nonuniform wall heating of a square cavity and the resulting natural
convection phenomenon is numerically analyzed within the present work. While the left …

Despite the abundance of daylight in hot desert climates, deep-plan office buildings still lack
the provision of sufficient daylight. Although tubular daylighting devices (TDDs) offer a …

The biggest challenge in building design is to optimize the use of natural energy to provide
human comfort and consume less energy. Passive facade technologies have been …

Artificial lighting comprises nearly one-third of the total electrical load of buildings, resulting
in significant carbon emissions. Reducing the carbon emissions caused by artificial lighting …

Light pipes transmit daylight into building interiors. Their installation into thermally insulated
roofs of low energy buildings can be a problem because of thermal bridges and …

Natural convection from a duct into the quiescent ambient is investigated. Heat transfer and
dynamics of natural convection from the duct are discussed using a simple scaling analysis …

Tubular light guides are applicable for daylighting of windowless areas in buildings. Despite
their many positive indoor climate aspects they can also present some problems with heat …

Natural convection in a vertical channel exists widely in nature and industry. Accordingly,
natural convection in the channel is investigated in this paper. Dynamics and heat transfer of …

With the continuous development of society, power consumption for the lighting and the
ventilation in buildings accounts for more and more proportion of the total energy supply …