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A Study on the Development of High-rise Curtain Wall Thermal Analysis Program  

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)
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Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering / v.19, no.1, 2007 , pp. 10-18 More about this Journal
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.
Keywords
High-rise building; Curtain wall; Heat conduction; Finite volume method; U-factor;
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