The Impact of the Building Forms of Tall Buildings on Dust Accumulation and Thermal Performance in Hot Climates
, Tareq Salameh 2, Deena Al Qurneh 1, Sahar Hassan 1, Rawan Hamad 1, Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem 2, Abdul Hai Al-Alami 2, Abdul Ghani Olabi 2 and Taro Mori 3
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Dear authors:
I find the work very interesting and innovative from a scientific and practical point of view in terms of architectural design.
However, there is some central questions that must be clarified in order to publish the article since, as it says in line 617
Dust accumulation can impact the thermal performance and the annual cooling load of the building.
The questions are:
1.- How is the accumulated dust layer estimated?
2.- What is the accumulated thickness in the different surfaces and orientations of the building?
3.- This layer is not in turn eroded by the impact of other dust particles carried by the wind on the building?
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Reviewer 2 Report
In this study, the authors studied dust simulation and thermal performance of tall buildings in a hot climate. The authors say that the aims of this study is to create an iconic dust-control skyscraper that resembles an environment-friendly structure, adapting a new design approach from dust simulation.
1) The authors say that the aims of this study is to create an iconic dust-control skyscraper that resembles an environment-friendly structure, adapting a new design approach from dust simulation. The authors simulate tall buildings whose ground plan does not change in height. What is the opinion of the authors about buildings whose horizontal section changes in height?
2) Obviously this work is a pure numerical study. The reviewer wants to ask a question about the validation study. Are there some related experimental studies can be used to verify the numerical results in the existing literatures?
3) It is suggested to add a clear nomenclature in the manuscript for the convenience of reading.
4) More background about the practical aspect of the present study should be added in the introduction part to help readers had better understand the motivation of this work.
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Reviewer 3 Report
The aim of the paper is interesting but is not clear in which way the simulations have been carried out for each skyscraper, especially in relation to thermal simulation. A more detailed structure of the paper could be useful in order to systematize the analyses carried out by giving more detailed information about them and by describing the starting conditions... It could be better to distinguish in the "introduction" among the literature review, the background and the aims of the paper in order to allow readers to clearly understand the main scope of the paper. A more detailed approach to the description of the simulations and their results could be useful, by giving information about input data and by commenting in detail output, not only from qualitative point of view.
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Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
The paper has been improved enough to be published.
Author Response
Thank you for the support of this research. We highly appreciate your time and efforts put into reviewing the article and your decision.
