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Biomimicry-Based Strategies for Urban Heat Island Mitigation: A Numerical Case Study under Tropical Climate

Biomimetics, 2021
In recent years, demographic growth has caused cities to expand their urban areas, increasing the risk of overheating, creating insurmountable microclimatic conditions within the urban area, which is why studies have been carried out on the urban heat ...
Kevin Araque, Paola Palacios, Dafni Mora, Miguel Chen Austin   +3 more
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Bio-Inspired Electricity Storage Alternatives to Support Massive Demand-Side Energy Generation: A Review of Applications at Building Scale

Biomimetics, 2021
This work has its origin in the growing demands of energy regulations to meet future local targets and to propose a global implementation framework.
Alisson Dodón, Vanessa Quintero, Miguel Chen Austin, Dafni Mora   +3 more
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Metamodeling of the Energy Consumption of Buildings with Daylight Harvesting – Application of Artificial Neural Networks Sensitive to Orientation

Journal of Daylighting, 2021
Daylight harvesting is a well-known strategy to address building energy efficiency. However, few simplified tools can evaluate its dual impact on lighting and air conditioning energy consumption.
Raphaela Walger da Fonseca, Fernando Oscar Ruttkay Pereira   +1 more
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Exhaled Carbon Dioxide as a Physiological Source of Deterioration of Indoor Air Quality in Non-Industrial Environments: Influence of Air Temperature

Energies, 2021
People are the main reason for the deterioration of indoor air quality (IAQ) due to the continuous physiological metabolism processes in their bodies, including respiration.
Radostina A. Angelova, Detelin Markov, Rositsa Velichkova, Peter Stankov, Iskra Simova   +4 more
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Numerical Assessment of Zebra-Stripes-Based Strategies in Buildings Energy Performance: A Case Study under Tropical Climate

Biomimetics, 2022
Urban growth has increased the risk of over-heating both in the microclimate and inside buildings, affecting thermal comfort and energy efficiency. That is why this research aims to evaluate the energy performance of buildings in terms of thermal comfort
Miguel Chen Austin, Kevin Araque, Paola Palacios, Katherine Rodríguez Maure, Dafni Mora   +4 more
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Inspection of Biomimicry Approaches as an Alternative to Address Climate-Related Energy Building Challenges: A Framework for Application in Panama

Biomimetics, 2020
In the Panama context, energy consumption in the building sector is mostly related to the conditioning of indoor spaces for cooling and lighting. Different nature strategies can be mimic to strongly impact these two aspects in the building sector, such ...
Miguel Chen Austin, Dagmar Garzola, Nicole Delgado, José Ulises Jiménez, Dafni Mora   +4 more
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A Multiobjective Optimization Approach for Retrofitting Decision-Making towards Achieving Net-Zero Energy Districts: A Numerical Case Study in a Tropical Climate

Smart Cities, 2022
Buildings are among the main reasons for the deterioration of the world environment as they are responsible for a large percentage of CO2 emissions related to energy. For this reason, it is necessary to find solutions to this problem.
Lorena Chacón, Miguel Chen Austin, Carmen Castaño   +2 more
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Use of Land Surface Temperature Estimation with Geographical Information Tools for Validation of Numerical Microclimate Studies at Urban Scale [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2021
For this study, different approaches found in the literature to obtain the Land Surface Temperature (LST) were evaluated through Geographic Information tools, to validate the temperature results obtained from dynamic simulations at urban scale with the ...
Bustamante Mileyka, Mora Dafni, Chen Austin Miguel   +2 more
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Numerical Assessment of Different Phase Change Materials as a Passive Strategy to Reduce Energy Consumption in Buildings under Tropical Climates

Buildings, 2022
The building envelope design constrains how much HVAC systems must work to provide comfort. High thermal mass in walls is preferable to delay heat gain, as well as reduce it.
Miguel Chen Austin, Jesús Araúz, Dafni Mora   +2 more
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Influence of Adaptive Human–Machine Interface on Electric-Vehicle Range-Anxiety Mitigation

Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2020
The electrification of vehicles is without a doubt one of the milestones of today’s automotive technology. Even though industry actors perceive it as a future standard, acceptance, and adoption of this kind of vehicles by the end user remain a huge
Antonyo Musabini, Kevin Nguyen, Romain Rouyer, Yannis Lilis   +3 more
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