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| Author(s): |
Victor Figueiredo Roriz
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Urbanismo |
| Defense date: | 2011-09-22 |
| Examining board members: |
Rosana Maria Caram;
Lucila Chebel Labaki;
Eduvaldo Paulo Sichieri;
José Tomaz Vieira Pereira;
Roberto Lamberts
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| Advisor: | Rosana Maria Caram |
| Abstract | |
On surfaces perfectly flat and smooth, there are no obstacles to the radiant flow. However, typical surfaces of buildings have bumps and hollows that can significantly change the behaviour of them. The absorptivity and emissivity are properties of materials, while the emittance and absorptance are surface characteristics, being influenced not only by the material they are made, but also by its geometry and surface feature. This research aimed to verify such influences by means of theoretical and experimental procedures. A theoretical model for calculating the so-called "cavity effect" was developed, which allows to estimate the effective absorptance and Emittance of a surface. The resulting estimates were compared with those obtained in classical procedures for calculating the same effect. Field tests were conducted under actual weather conditions, allowing an analysis of the phenomenon in the presence of other heat fluxes and under the influence of different climate variables. To complement the data, experiments were performed under controlled conditions, allowing to test the theoretical model. In order to quantify the implications of the effects mentioned above, simulations were made with the software EnergyPlus considering a simple geometry building, submitted to the climate of the city of Brasilia, with different radiant properties of the roofs Adopting effective absorptances and emittance, simulation results show differences of up to 2.5 ° C in the internal air temperature, compared to those obtained ignoring the influences that the ripples of the tiles have on radiant flows. Considering the use of air conditioners, this could represent up to 30% variation in the energy consumption estimative. Research has shown that for surfaces typically found in buildings, the proposed model is adequate and may contribute to the improvement of thermal and behavioral studies of buildings (AU) | |