Meral Ozel

TL;DR: In this article, thermal performance and optimum insulation thickness of building walls with different structure materials under dynamic thermal conditions were investigated for a south-facing wall and the climatic conditions of Elazig, Turkey.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive economic analysis has been performed to interrelate the optimum thickness of insulation materials for various wall orientations and the yearly cooling and heating transmission loads of building walls were determined by use of implicit finite-difference method with regarding steady periodic conditions under the climatic conditions of Elazig, Turkey.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used an implicit finite difference method under steady periodic conditions for different wall orientations during the summer period in Antalya, Turkey, to determine optimum insulation thickness according to cooling requirements of buildings in a hot climate.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of insulation location on the heat transfer characteristics of building walls and optimization of insulation thickness are investigated numerically using an implicit finite difference method under steady periodic conditions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the optimum thickness of thermal insulation used to reduce heat gain and losses in buildings is investigated under dynamic thermal conditions by using the climatic conditions of Elazig, Turkey.