A conceptual review on residential thermal comfort in the humid tropics

• Main Authors: Harimi Djamila, Chu, Chi Ming, Sivakumar Kumaresan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Timeline Publication Pvt. Ltd. 2012
• Subjects: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/18639/1/A%20conceptual%20review%20on%20residential.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/18639/; http://www.ijeir.org/administrator/components/com_jresearch/files/publications/IJEIR-339%20Final.pdf

In the era of increasingly expensive fuel and with the theoretical complication and the limitation of comfort prediction in naturally ventilated buildings based on thermal balance approach, researchers were motivated to go beyond heat balance approach to predict occupants’ thermal comfort using stat...