Abstract: New solar utilizability correlations for solar collectors with apertures at various orientations are developed. These correlations use the functional form introduced by Klein/Theilacker and an ...

Abstract: This paper presents a new analytical method for estimating the annual auxiliary space heating energy requirements of passively heated solar buildings. It features closed-form, analytical expressions ...

Abstract: A simplifed design method for estimating the sensible component of the cooling load of skin dominated buildings suitable for use on programmable calculators or microcomputers is developed. The ...

Abstract: Principles of Sustainable Energy1st ed. CRC Press, 2010, 855 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4398-1407-9.

Abstract: The design, analysis, construction and testing of a novel solar collector is reported. The Reverse Flat Plate Collector (RFPC) is intended to be a stationary, nonevacuated, low-technology, medium ...

Abstract: This paper presents an analytical model to predict the temperature variation within a multilayered soil. The soil surface temperature is assumed to have a sinusoidal time variation for both ...

Abstract: This paper overviews some applications of neural networks (NNs) to estimate energy and demand savings from retrofits of commercial buildings. First, a brief background information on NNs is ...

Abstract: An analytical model is developed to predict the annual variation of soil surface temperature from readily available weather data and soil thermal properties. The time variation is approximated ...

Abstract: Following several successful applications of feedforward neural networks (NNs) to the building energy prediction problem (Wang and Kreider, 1992; JCEM, 1992, 1993; Curtiss et al., 1993, 1994; ...