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These variables include, building material of the envelope, thicknesses of the building materials, day of the year, time of day, orientation of the surface (e.g. wall or roof, 90 degrees or 180), and wall face orientation (cardinal directions, i.e. N, NW, S, SE, etc.), to name a few.
Sol-air temperature (T sol-air) is a variable used to calculate cooling load of a building and determine the total heat gain through exterior surfaces. It is an improvement over: It is an improvement over:
Imagine that the time history is a template for a rigid sheet (pagoda roof). Turn the sheet clockwise 90° (earliest time to the top). Each "tensile peak" is imagined as a source of water that "drips" down the pagoda. Count the number of half-cycles by looking for terminations in the flow occurring when either:
The relationship between pressure and leakage air flow rate is defined by the power law between the airflow rate and the pressure difference across the building envelope as follows: [16] q L =C L ∆p n. where: q L is the volumetric leakage airflow rate expressed in m 3 h −1; C L is the air leakage coefficient expressed in m 3 h −1 Pa −n
The natural air leakage, under calmer conditions, is likely to be much less. As a result, the so-called natural ACH may be a factor of 10-25 times smaller. [ 14 ] This is of relevance since high-performance building methodologies strive to keep ACH low under standardized, weather-stressed conditions, while air quality considerations may require ...
In a nozzle or other constriction, the discharge coefficient (also known as coefficient of discharge or efflux coefficient) is the ratio of the actual discharge to the ideal discharge, [1] i.e., the ratio of the mass flow rate at the discharge end of the nozzle to that of an ideal nozzle which expands an identical working fluid from the same initial conditions to the same exit pressures.
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Infiltration is sometimes called air leakage. The leakage of room air out of a building, intentionally or not, is called exfiltration . Infiltration is caused by wind , negative pressurization of the building, and by air buoyancy forces known commonly as the stack effect .