ABSTRACT
The world’s major primary energy-consuming sectors are transportation, buildings, and industry. Among these, buildings are the most dominant sector in terms of share of energy consumption throughout the world. Energy conservation can be achieved by decreasing the air conditioning load, designing climate responsive buildings, constructing closely packed building envelopes, and developing and using energy-efficient equipment. Thermal mass facilitates the regulation of energy flow of a building to the advantage of its occupants without the consumption of large amounts of high-grade fuels. Thermal mass is a pivotal constituent in the success of some passive cooling strategies, active heating and cooling strategies, and most passive solar heating strategies, which are often applied to optimize the performance of energy-conserving buildings, relying heavily on the mechanical cooling and heating strategies. A wide application of Computation fluid dynamics has shown its ability in the dispersion modelling of the indoor and outdoor contaminants.
