Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering (설비공학논문집)

The Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea (대한설비공학회)
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A Study on the Development of High-rise Curtain Wall Thermal Analysis Program

초고층 커튼월 외피 열성능해석 프로그램 개발에 관한 연구

  • No, Sang-Tae (Department of Architectural Engineering, Korea University) ;
  • Kim, Kang-Soo (Department of Architectural Engineering, Korea University) ;
  • Chung, Jin-Se (curtain Wall Design & Consulting Testing Laboratory)
  • 노상태 (고려대학교 건축공학과) ;
  • 김강수 (고려대학교 건축공학과) ;
  • 정진세 (CNC 커튼월 시험연구소)
  • Published : 2007.01.10
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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to develop an user-friendly computer program which can analyze the thermal performance of high-rise curtain wall. In this study, the sub-routines for FVM SOLVER, HIGH-RISE CONDITION CALCULATION, AUTOMATIC SPECIFICATION BOUNDARY/MESH, MATERIAL DATABASE, and GRAPHICAL CONDENSATION/U-FACTOR OUTPUT were developed by using Visual Basic. The curtain wall heat conduction simulation results of program showed good agreement with those of FLUENT and THERM. The minimum and maximum relative error rates were 3.17 and 9.68% compared to other software.

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