Numerical estimation of air gaps’ influence on the insulating performance of multilayer thermal insulation

A review on hybrid optimization algorithms to coalesce computational morphogenesis with interactive energy consumption forecasting

“…Every form is conceived on the basis of material choices while the thermophysical properties of these materials will play decisive role on the thermal behavior of the form as well as on thermal storage and load shifting of the future building. Thermal engineering research showed that safe sophisticated no toxic materials, with low energy content and low environmental impact is a very important question that should be investigated at an early design stage, since optimum utilization of such materials could significantly influence on the geometry of the envelope [27,[36][37][38][39][40][41][42].…”

“…In general we remark that the shape conception stage remains an integral artistic procedure while energy performance issues are not entered in the equation of form creation. Even if the building research community has been always using building performance simulation tools [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29], this kind of research is not coupled with the architectural design process at early design stages. As it is well-argued elsewhere, there are many reasons for this delay, starting from the difficulty of using complex sophisticated simulation tools to describe complex physical phenomena [26,28,[30][31][32], the augmented calculation time needed for such operations, the uncertainty in the results and the general impression that the designer is restricted by the limitations of the tools [33,34].…”

Thermal Modelling of a Remote Sensing Satellite Panel in an Inclined Orbit

“…The thermal balance equation in transient case was solved by software tool called Thermal Desktop [9] [10] [11]. The energy balance terms, and the different sun fluxes are stated in Equation (1), and Figure 1 respectively.…”

Study of coupled transient radiation-natural convection heat transfer across rectangular cavities in the vicinity of low emissivity thin films for innovative building envelope applications

“…and presented [12], [40], [41], [13], [42], [10]. This numerical model is accurate enough to simulate this kind of applications, however it was discovered that when we simulate more than 48 hours in a transient regime the model has the tendency to slightly overestimate transient heat transfer within the studied prototype.…”