Radiation exchange between persons and surfaces for building energy simulations》.pdf

Energy and Buildings 101 (2015) 110–121 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Energy and Buildings j o u r na l h o me p a g e : w w w. elsev /locate/enbuild Radiation exchange between persons and surfaces for building energy simulations Mette Havgaard Vorre a,∗ , Rasmus Lund Jensen b , Jérôme Le Dréau b a Energy and Environment, Danish Building Research Institute, Aalborg University Copenhagen, A. C. Meyers Vaenge 15, 2450 Copenhagen SV, Denmark b Department of Civil Engineering, Aalborg University, Sofiendalsvej 9-11, 9200 Aalborg SV, Denmark a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Thermal radiation within buildings is a significant component of thermal comfort. Typically the methods Received 9 February 2015 applied for calculating view factors between a person and its building surfaces requires great compu- Received in revised form 1 May 2015 tational time. This research developed a view factor calculation method suitable for building energy Accepted 2 May 2015 simulations. The method calculates view factors by numerical integration of projected area factor. Over Available online 12 May 2015 time the projected area factor of a person has been simplified by geometrical shapes. These shapes were compared with more complex equations on precision and calculation time. The same was done for the Keywords: resulting view factors, where the results were compared with view