Contents
1 Introduction 3
1.1 Background 3
1.2 Purpose statement 3
1.3 Research question 3
1.4 Research objective 3
2 Literature review 4
2.1 Selection of suitable comfort model to access outdoor thermal comfort. 4
2.2 Validation Of the Assessment of Urban Outdoor Thermal Comfort and Its Practical Application ......................................................................................................................... 5
2.3 Workflow and Simulation tool for modelling outdoor thermal comfort, UTCI. 5
2.4 Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) 6
2.5 UTCI Elements 7
2.6 Urban Weather Generator 8
3 Research methodology 9
3.1 Data gathering 10
3.2 Site selection 10
4 Procedure 10
4.1 Morphing Weather files: Urban Weather Generator (UWG) 11
4.2 Future Weather files 12
4.3 Urban Building Energy Model 12
4.3.1 Steps 12
4.3.2 3D Model: Shape file generation 13
4.3.3 Energy Model 15
5 Validation of simulation model 16
6 Results 17
6.1 UTCI: Category 21
7 Conclusion 25
7.1 Limitation 26
7.2 Future scope 26
8 Annexure 26
8.1 Script 26
8.1.1 Urban Weather Generator 26
8.1.2 UTCI 27
8.2 References 29