{"id":18795,"date":"2023-05-06T19:17:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T19:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/design-a-home-exterior-to-minimize-heat-gain-during-a-summer-day-in-norfolk-va\/"},"modified":"2023-05-06T19:17:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T19:17:54","slug":"design-a-home-exterior-to-minimize-heat-gain-during-a-summer-day-in-norfolk-va","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/design-a-home-exterior-to-minimize-heat-gain-during-a-summer-day-in-norfolk-va\/","title":{"rendered":"Design a home exterior to minimize heat gain during a summer day in Norfolk, VA."},"content":{"rendered":"

PROBLEM STATEMENT<\/span><\/u><\/p>\n

Design a home exterior to minimize heat gain during a summer day in
\nNorfolk, VA. Requirements to be fulfilled:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7        
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>Home must be 196m2<\/sup>. One story is
\nsufficient.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7        
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>All walls must be straight, but the shape may be
\nany that the designer chooses.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7        
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>Walls for a one story home are 3m high.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7        
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>The interior must be maintained at 21o<\/sup>C.<\/span><\/p>\n

Make reasonable assumptions for the following:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7        
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>Temperature and sun received. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7        
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>Heat generation within the home, including any
\nparasitic electrical loads.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7        
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>Maximum number of people occupying the home.
\nMake sure you can account for any gatherings that may occur such as a birthday
\nparty.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7        
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>Wall cross-section and layout. Calculate heat
\nloss through the walls and roof.<\/span><\/p>\n

Allowance must be made for six 1.5mx1m windows and two 1.5mx2m
\nwindows.<\/span><\/p>\n

Discuss losses associated with doors. Do not include these in your
\ndesign calculations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Results should include:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7        
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>A sketch of the overall layout of the walls,
\nincluding placement of windows. Discuss the choice of shape of the home and how
\nthis affects the heat transfer problem.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7        
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>A sketch of the wall cross-section.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7        
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>Calculation of thermal resistance of a wall with
\na window in it, as well as without a window in it.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7        
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>A discussion and supporting calculations of heat
\ngained due to radiation.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7        
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>Estimate of the amount of heat required to be
\nremoved from the house in a day.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7        
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>Estimate of the cost to remove that heat based
\non reasonable thermodynamic analysis.<\/span><\/p>\n


<\/span><\/p>\n

The design project report should describe engineering objectives, underlying assumptions for the analysis, actual computations, and summary of results. Final submission length should be 10-12 pages, including any figures or graphs supporting students\u2019 designs. There is not a word minimum, just need to show calculations and illustartions
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PROBLEM STATEMENT Design a home exterior to minimize heat gain during a summer day in Norfolk, VA. Requirements to be fulfilled: \u00b7         Home must be 196m2. One story is sufficient. \u00b7         All walls must be straight, but the shape may be any that the designer chooses. \u00b7         Walls for a one story home are 3m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[185],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/18795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/18795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=18795"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=18795"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=18795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}