Cooling strategies in the biological systems and termite mound: the potential of emulating them to sustainable architecture and bionic engineering

• Main Authors: Abd Ullah, Amatal Raof, Said, Ismail, Ossen, Dilshan Remaz
• Format: Article
• Published: Asian Research Publishing Network (ARPN) 2018
• Subjects: TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/84344/; http://www.arpnjournals.com
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Biomimicry, the science of emulating nature’s strategies, has remarkably contributed to solving many of human problems in different fields. This paper studied the potential of interpreting some of the nature mechanisms to reduce or eliminate energy consumed for cooling purposes. It highlights three...