
- 396 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Bio-Climatology for Built Environment
About this book
Indoor climate is determined by rational lighting, heating, cooling and ventilating systems. For occupants' well-being it should be consistent with how regional outdoor climate works in the flow of radiation via four paths of heat transfer: radiation; convection; conduction; and evaporation. This book starts with the relationship between the human body and its immediate environmental space followed by a brief introduction of passive and active systems for indoor climate conditioning. The nature of light and heat is discussed with a focus on building envelope systems such as walls and windows, and then examined from the viewpoint of thermodynamics and human-biology. Some examples are given to enable a better understanding of luminous and thermal characteristics of our most immediate environment particularly for those professionally involved in environmental planning, designing, and engineering to know about bio-climatic design principle.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Built Environment and Human Beings
- 2. Passive and Active Systems for Conditioning the Built Environment
- 3. Basics of Human Biology
- 4. Solar and Lunar Effects on Built Environment
- 5. Visible Light and Luminous Environment
- 6. Heat and Thermal Environment
- 7. Thermodynamics
- 8. Air and Moisture
- 9. Mathematical Modelling
- 10. Human-Body Exergetic Behaviour
- 11. Flow and Circulation of Matter
- 12. Global Environmental System Enfolding Built-Environmental Systems
- Index