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Integration of eaves and shading devices for improving the thermal comfort in a multi-zone building
This paper introduces a new approach to the description and modelling of
multi-zone buildings in Saharan climate. Therefore, nodal method was used to
apprehend thermo-aeraulic behavior of air subjected to varied solicitations.
A coupling was made between equations proposed by P. Rumianowski and some
equations of a building thermal energy model found in the TRNSYS user manual.
Runge-Kutta fourth order numerical method was used to solve the obtained
system of differential equations. Theses results show that proper design of
passive houses in an arid region is based on the control of direct solar
gains, temperatures and specific humidities. According to the compactness
index, the insersion of solar shading and eaves can provide improved
thermo-aeraulic comfort