Journal article
Investigation on the Thermal Condition of a Traditional Cold-Lane in Summer in Subtropical Humid Climate Region of China
Hui Chen, Yin Wei, Yaolin Lin, Wei Yang, Xiaoming Chen, Maria Kolokotroni, Xiaohong Liu, Guoqiang Zhang
ENERGIES | MDPI | Published : 2020
DOI: 10.3390/en13246602
Abstract
A Chinese traditional narrow street, named Cold-Lane, can create a microclimatic zone that provides pedestrian thermal comfort under hot and humid climate conditions. This phenomenon was observed through experimental measurement during the summer of 2016. The heat transfer rate over the pedestrian body surface was calculated to reveal why pedestrians experience a cool sensation, and computational flow dynamics (CFD) simulation was carried out to study the influence of the street aspect ratio on the shading effect. It was found that the perception of thermal comfort can be attributed mainly to the radiation between the relatively cool surrounding walls and the human body, and the wind velocit..
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Awarded by Machinery Industry Innovation Platform Construction Project: Key Laboratory of Healthy Environment and Energy Conservation of Large-space Plants
Awarded by International Science and Technology Cooperation Program of China
Awarded by Natural Science Foundation of China
Awarded by Natural Science Foundation of Hunan
Funding Acknowledgements
This research was funded by Machinery Industry Innovation Platform Construction Project: Key Laboratory of Healthy Environment and Energy Conservation of Large-space Plants (Grant No. 2019SA-10-07), International Science and Technology Cooperation Program of China grant number 2014DFA72190, 201413370083, 201513370014, China Scholarship Council, Natural Science Foundation of China, grant number 51308206, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, Natural Science Foundation of Hunan, grant number 201631440729, IEA-EBC Annex 62-Ventilative Cooling, and Annex80-Resilient Cooling.