W. Chun et al., ENERGY MONITORING OF A THERMALLY MASSIVE PASSIVE SOLAR RESIDENCE BY THE PSTAR APPROACH, Journal of solar energy engineering, 115(3), 1993, pp. 155-160
This paper reports the application of the PSTAR (Primary and Secondary
Terms Analysis and Renormalization) method to a thermally massive pas
sive solar house located in Daejeon, Korea. The house has approximatel
y 156 m2 of living area with three bedrooms and a living room, which e
mbodies many passive solar features for energy conservation. The prima
ry concern of this work was to properly evaluate the thermal behavior
of a thermally massive building structure using the PSTAR method. Resu
lts show close agreements between the measured and renormalized values
reflecting the effects of heavy thermal mass, whereas the simulation
results from the audit description of the house deviate somewhat consi
derably.