In a hot-humid tropical climate,indoor thermal performance can be enhanced by comfort ventilation.Indoor venti-lation depends upon building opening size.But risks involved in providing openings include ingress of mosq...In a hot-humid tropical climate,indoor thermal performance can be enhanced by comfort ventilation.Indoor venti-lation depends upon building opening size.But risks involved in providing openings include ingress of mosquitoes and insects which thrive in the tropical climate.A practical and prevalent option to prevent insects in ventilated dwellings of the tropical,hot-humid city of Chennai,India is through the use offly screens.Fly screens,when used over open-ings,prevent a certain quantum of solar radiation and wind from entering inside the rooms.Reduced direct solar radiation prevents the indoors from heating up,while reduced wind movement prevents the cross ventilation.There-fore,it is important to know the indoor thermal performance of ventilated rooms in the presence offly screens with changing opening sizes.The criterion to evaluate indoor thermal performance in this paper is indoor air temperature.The aim of this research is to investigate the influence offly screens on openings with varying sizes,in a naturally ventilated dwelling in the hot-humid climate of Chennai,India,during the summer period.The results of the study show thatfly screens raise the indoor air temperature when openings are in the range of 100%to 35%of the roomfloor area.There is no significant change in the indoor air temperature when the opening sizes are less than 30%of the roomfloor area.展开更多
文摘In a hot-humid tropical climate,indoor thermal performance can be enhanced by comfort ventilation.Indoor venti-lation depends upon building opening size.But risks involved in providing openings include ingress of mosquitoes and insects which thrive in the tropical climate.A practical and prevalent option to prevent insects in ventilated dwellings of the tropical,hot-humid city of Chennai,India is through the use offly screens.Fly screens,when used over open-ings,prevent a certain quantum of solar radiation and wind from entering inside the rooms.Reduced direct solar radiation prevents the indoors from heating up,while reduced wind movement prevents the cross ventilation.There-fore,it is important to know the indoor thermal performance of ventilated rooms in the presence offly screens with changing opening sizes.The criterion to evaluate indoor thermal performance in this paper is indoor air temperature.The aim of this research is to investigate the influence offly screens on openings with varying sizes,in a naturally ventilated dwelling in the hot-humid climate of Chennai,India,during the summer period.The results of the study show thatfly screens raise the indoor air temperature when openings are in the range of 100%to 35%of the roomfloor area.There is no significant change in the indoor air temperature when the opening sizes are less than 30%of the roomfloor area.
