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Research Article

A procedural technique for thermal simulation and visualization in urban environments

David Muñoz( ), Gonzalo Besuievsky, Gustavo Patow
Geometry and Graphics Group, Universitat de Girona, Spain
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Abstract

Analysing the thermal behaviour of buildings is an important goal for anyand all of the tasks involving energy flow simulation in urban environments. However, the number of variables to be considered, along with the difficulty of implementing some of them, make it difficult to address the problem on an urban scale. In this paper we propose a procedural approach that, from a 3D urban model and a set of parameters, simulates the thermal exchanges that take place inside and outside buildings in an urban environment. We also provide a technique to efficiently visualise thermal variations over time of both the interior and exterior of buildings in an urban environment. We believe this technique will be helpful for performing a rapid analysis when building parameters, such as materials, dimensions, shape or number of floors, are being changed.

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thermal simulationurban physics3D city modelsurban environmentsthermal visualisation

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Building Simulation
Volume 12 Issue 6,
December 2019
Pages 1013-1031
DOI: 10.1007/s12273-019-0549-x
Cite this article:
Muñoz D, Besuievsky G, Patow G. A procedural technique for thermal simulation and visualization in urban environments. Building Simulation, 2019, 12(6): 1013-1031. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12273-019-0549-x

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Received: 04 November 2018
Revised: 08 March 2019
Accepted: 25 March 2019
Published: 08 July 2019
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