supported by the 2020 UNSW Scientia PhD Scholarship Scheme and carried out under the UNSW Scientia Project entitled“Energy Poverty in NSW.Characteristics,Impact and Solutions”.
In the context of escalating global energy demands,urban areas,specifically the building sector,contribute to the largest energy consumption,with urban overheating exacerbating this issue.Utilizing urban modelling for...
Severe urban heat,a prevalent climate change consequence,endangers city residents globally.Vegetation-based mitigation strategies are commonly employed to address this issue.However,the Middle East and North Africa ar...
The first author gratefully acknowledges the financial support from the Chinese Scholarship Council(CSC No.202007000086).
In the simulation of building overheating risks,the use of typical meteorological years(TMY)can greatly reduce the simulation workload and accurately reflect the distribution of simulation results according to the wea...
There is a growing need for accurate and interpretable machine learning models of thermal comfort in buildings.Physics-informed machine learning could address this need by adding physical consistency to such models.Th...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51878636,No.51908527);the Jiangxi Provincial Key Technology R&D Program,China(No.20202BBEL53033);the Key Research and Development Project of Anhui Province,China(201904a07020014);Young and Middle-aged Teacher Education Research Project 2020(Science and Technology);the Education Department of Fujian Province(No.JAT200284);Research Start-Up Fund of Jimei University(ZQ2020016).
A dual-channel solar thermal storage wall system with eutectic phase change material is studied.The full-day cooling load in summer and heating load in winter can be both decreased by this novel system.To investigate ...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51278525);the grant of the Top Youth Programme of Wuhan University.
The solar incidence on an indoor environment and its occupants has significant impacts on indoor thermal comfort.It can bring favorable passive solar heating and can result in undesired overheating(even in winter).Thi...