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(2007) developed new correlations for a vertical wall in a single-storey building, using a test panel method on an actual building situated in the real scale environment. They presented new correlations for wind speed and convective heat transfer coefficients, for a single-storey building in a rural location. Separate measures of wind speed have been used, enabling the user to select the appropriate correlation depending on where the wind speed was measured in their studies. Furthermore, much previous work on heat transfer coefficients has used higher storeys in multi-rise buildings, and little data is available for low-rise situations. Since low-rise buildings are dominant in the rural locations, these correlations found to be useful as an aid to design and calculation of heating and cooling loads in low rise buildings. Shao et al. (2009), focused on the development of test set-up of naphthalene sublimation method for measuring CHTCs on the building horizontal roof under outdoor conditions. A commonly used correlation of CHTCs vs. V was obtained using naphthalene sublimation method. They compared that correlation with the conventional heat balance method for validation, and the results show good agreement using the two different methods. They compared the correlation of CHTCs vs. wind speed obtained in this study with other studies and reported that the discrepancy between the studies may be caused by many factors, such as differing building geometries, surface roughness, height of representative wind velocities, wind directions.

Different surface heat transfer area will be available for different urban canopy configurations. Higher the BCR leads to higher surface heat transfer area. Fig. 7(b) shows urban cooling rate for different surface heat transfer area (configurations with different BCR and height variations). It shows that as the surface heat transfer area increases the cooling rate (heat convected) of the urban canopy also increases.