Effect of Combined Heat and Moisture Transfer on the Predicted Indoor Thermal Environment

Indoor and Built Environment

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 170-180

  Gan, Guohui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Condensation; Moisture transfer; Radiation heat transfer; Thermal comfort

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004557333     PISSN: 1420326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000463706     Document Type: Article

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