THERMAL PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF OPAQUE FACADES FOR THE DIFFERENT THICKNESS

Sridhar.N, C.S.Venkatesha

Abstract: Facades could be one of the ways to reduce the cooling load for buildings. In this work heat transfer analysis for different thickness facade configurations (all four sides facade of a room). From the results, it is found that there is nearly 5.8% reduction in wall temperature for all four sided facade configuration. The thickness of façade also influence the rate of heat transfer .If the thickness of façade increases the inside façade surface temperature is decreases, that shows the thickness of façade is inversely proportion to the heat transfer. If the thickness of façade is increased that leads to reduction the temperature of façade inner surface.

Keywords: PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF OPAQUE FACADES

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0305159