Heat Transfer in Buildings

Dear Colleagues,

Building energy consumption has reached approximately 30% of the global energy consumption, which is very large and creates a huge challenge to achieve a global plan of energy conservation and emission reduction or even carbon neutralization in the future. Accordingly, it is important to assess energy consumption in buildings for engineers, designers and businesses in the society of buildings. More than 50% of energy consumption in buildings is related to heating, cooling and ventilation, which are significantly affected by heat transfer in buildings. Further, understanding of heat transfer in buildings is of practical significance and is interesting for researchers.

To obtain insights into heat transfer in buildings, researchers have performed many studies of natural convection and ventilation in buildings through flow visualization and heat transfer measurement. However, further studies devoted to identifying dynamics, characterizing flows and quantifying heat transfer are always expected in order to present new conceptions and make new ideas for heat transfer in buildings.

To reduce the energy consumption of buildings, engineers have also devoted themselves to developing innovative technologies and new generation designs of buildings. Accordingly, further investigations of various strategies and optimizations through adopting new energy components, solar roofs, solar chimneys and BIPV and BAPV design are being anticipation by designers to achieve thermal comfort and energy reduction of buildings.

As mentioned above, the Special Issue is aimed at collecting high-level research on such fields as: heat transfer in buildings, convection, ventilation, flow visualization, measurement of thermal environment, assessment of thermal comfort, utilization of solar roofs, solar chimneys and energy components in buildings, and the role of BIPV and BAPV in energy consumption and emission reduction.

Dr. Suvash C. Saha
Prof. Dr. Feng Xu
Prof. Dr. Yifan Fan
Guest Editors

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