TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mandviya, Ayush Ketan (PBE22072)
AU  - Rawal, Rajan (Guide)
TI  - Assessing the impact of tree's evapotranspiration rates on the latent cooling loads in buildings (Softcopy is also available)
U1  - MBEP TH-0097  
PY  - 2024///
N1  - TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABSTRACT   ii
UNDERTAKING   v
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS   ix
ABBREVIATIONS   xi
TABLE OF CONTENTS  xiii
LIST OF FIGURES   xv
LIST OF TABLES   xvii
CHAPTER-1: INTRODUCTION     1
1.1 Background:   1
1.2 Aim:   2
1.3 Research Question:   2
1.4 Research Objective:   2
1.5 Scope and Limitation  3
CHAPTER-2: LITERATURE REVIEW   4
2.1 Factors affecting the process of Evapotranspiration   4
2.2 Existing research studies and adopted methodologies   4
2.2.1 Simulation based studies   5
2.2.2 Experimental based studies   6
2.3 Summary   7
CHAPTER-3: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY   8
3.1 Overview:   8
3.2 Selection of Trees for research study:   9
3.3 Data Collection for Characteristic of Trees   9
3.3.1 Data collection from literature   9
3.3.2 ENVI-met Tree modelling   10
3.4 Empirical equations to determine latent heat flux at canopy layer and change in
outdoor climatic conditions.   12
3.5 Empirical equations to determine Latent load of indoor space    13
CHAPTER-4: RESULTS     14
4.1 Calculation results for Neem tree:   15
4.2 Calculation results for Banyan tree:   16
4.3 Sensitivity analysis:   17
4.3.1 Sensitivity analysis for RH:   18
4.3.2 Sensitivity analysis for DBT:   19
4.3.3 Sensitivity analysis for LAI:   20
4.3.4 Correlation between change in outdoor specific humidity and the change in
indoor latent load due to single tree:   22
CHAPTER-5: CONCLUSION   24
REFERENCES     25
APPENDIX   28

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