Dl. Loveday et Ah. Taki, CONVECTIVE HEAT-TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS AT A PLANE SURFACE ON A FULL-SCALE BUILDING FACADE, International journal of heat and mass transfer, 39(8), 1996, pp. 1729-1742
Accurate knowledge of the heat transfer processes at the external surf
aces of buildings is necessary for design purposes. Using an experimen
tal arrangement designed to provide measurements of good quality and a
ccuracy, correlations are obtained for the external convection heat tr
ansfer coefficient h(c) as a function of wind speed for a plane, smoot
h test surface on the facade of an eight-storey building. Values for h
(c) were correlated with wind speeds measured 1 m from the test surfac
e and at 11 m above the roof. The correlations presented may be used f
or the prediction of h(c) values for the central region of smooth, mul
ti-storey building facades between fourth and eighth storey levels inc
lusive.