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Outdoor Microclimate Influence on Building Performance: Simulation Tools, Challenges, and Opportunities

Authors : Victoria Patricia López-Cabeza, Jesus Lizana, Eduardo Diz-Mellado, Carlos Rivera-Gómez, Carmen Galán-Marín

Published in: New Technologies in Building and Construction

Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore

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This chapter reviews the different approaches that currently exist to evaluate outdoor microclimates and their influence on building performance. Considering specific outdoor microclimates in building design flow can enable additional passive cooling strategies to mitigate climate risks in buildings and cities, improving their resilience capacity under extreme heat events. The available methods are defined and compared through different case studies of buildings with an inner courtyard, a traditional microclimate for passive cooling in hot climates. The results show the advantages and disadvantages of the different approaches and highlight the high interest in hybrid simulations coupling building energy simulation (BES) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools for early design stages.

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Title: Outdoor Microclimate Influence on Building Performance: Simulation Tools, Challenges, and Opportunities
Authors: Victoria Patricia López-Cabeza
Jesus Lizana
Eduardo Diz-Mellado
Carlos Rivera-Gómez
Carmen Galán-Marín
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Book: New Technologies in Building and Construction
Print ISBN: 978-981-19-1893-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-19-1894-0

Copyright Year: 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1894-0_7

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