Urban design in favor of human thermal comfort for hot arid climate using advanced simulation methods
Improving outdoor human thermal comfort could be considered as one of the most important targets for achieving successful open space designs. In hot arid climate, residential neighborhoods are responsible for the high request of energy to provide cooling needs for the occupantsâ comfort. The main pr...
Main Authors: | Asmaa Barakat, Hany Ayad, Zeyad El-Sayed |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2017-12-01
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Series: | Alexandria Engineering Journal |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110016817301515 |
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