Abstract :
A recently developed method named the three-dimensional numerical generation of response factors NGRF (Zoras and Kosmopoulos,
2009) was claimed to be fast, accurate and flexible as a result of incorporating elements of the response factor method into a finite
volume technique based numerical model. The presented paper reports on the application of the NGRF method for the numerical prediction
of temperatures within and around structural passive cooling components over multi-year temperature profiles. Once the numerical
temperature response factors time series of an earth-contact component’s grid node had been generated then its future thermal
performance due to any surrounding temperature variation can be predicted fast and accurately. The NGRF method was, successfully,
applied through an intermodel testing procedure to simulate soil and structural earth-contact passive cooling component temperatures
for multiple years.
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