Guidelines to study numerically and experimentally reflective insulation systems as applied to buildings

There is now widespread acceptance that insulation of the building's envelope plays a key role in efficient reduction of their energy consumption. Consequently, in the course of scientific and technological development, reflecting insulation systems are the object of an international discourse regarding their insulating performances. This study summarizes recent experimental and theoretical research on reflecting insulating systems carried out on an international level. Furthermore, as well as reviewing the existing literature, this contribution aims to introduce an experimental and theoretical framework sketched from the last international norms of standardization, while at the same time the major findings of an original research on reflected insulating systems in the framework of a PhD thesis are presented. To this end, a new data-driven transient heat transfer model was created to estimate the insulation capacity of typical reflecting insulating systems. The main guidelines to create an appropriate num...