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HomeApplied Mechanics and MaterialsApplied Mechanics and Materials Vol. 704Solar Performance of a Dome-Covered House

Solar Performance of a Dome-Covered House

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A dome-covered house is an example of designing sustainable buildings by learning from the optimized biological forms from the nature. This paper presents the solar-thermal model for a transparent dome built above one of the several houses located in Montreal. The incident solar radiation on selected cells, the roof and wall surface are presented. The dome-covered helps to reduce the heating load by 79.3% on January 21^st with annual average reduction of 92.9% and if the house is located in Yellowknife, the annual heating load reduction would be 56.3%.

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Mechanics and Control Engineering III

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Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 704)

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December 2014

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Yao Lin Lin, Wei Yang, Radu Zmeureanu

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Computer Simulation, Dome, Solar Energy, Thermal Model

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