Thermal Analysis of Light Pipes for Insulated Flat Roofs
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216305%3A26110%2F14%3APU110645" target="_blank" >RIV/00216305:26110/14:PU110645 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378778814007816#" target="_blank" >http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378778814007816#</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.09.044" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.09.044</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Thermal Analysis of Light Pipes for Insulated Flat Roofs
Original language description
Light pipes transmit daylight into building interiors. Their installation into thermally insulated roofs of low energy buildings can be a problem because of thermal bridges and condensation problems. This article is focused on a CFD simulation thermal analysis that include four variations of light pipes with a segment of a flat roof. Common light pipes with a hollow light guiding tube were compared to special light pipes containing an additional glass unit located inside the tube. The additional glass units increase thermal resistance and reduce condensation risks of the light guiding systems. The light pipes were compared in two different simulation models run in ANSYS Fluent software and the CalA program. Temperature profiles and air flow patterns of the cross sectional profiles of the light pipes served to determine the total heat transmittance and heat losses of the studied light pipes installed in a segment of a thermally insulated flat roof. The paper compares simplified 2D rotational-symmetrical numerical model based on the thermal diffusion equation with the complex 3D CFD numerical simulation. The results confirm that the simplified 2D numerical model is suitable for the thermal evaluation of the light pipes containing an additional glass unit, too. The additional glass unit with the triple glass improves thermal resistance up to 88% in case of light pipe with diameter 600 mm and reduces optical transmittance to 28%.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
20101 - Civil engineering
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EE2.3.30.0039" target="_blank" >EE2.3.30.0039: Excellent young researcher at BUT</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
ENERGY AND BUILDINGS
ISSN
0378-7788
e-ISSN
1872-6178
Volume of the periodical
2014
Issue of the periodical within the volume
85
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
436-444
UT code for WoS article
000348880900043
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-84908413335