Enhanced cooling in typical Sri Lankan dwellings

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 183-190

  Ratnaweera, Chandani ^a   Hestnes, Anne Grete ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cooling; Passive cooling; Simulation tests; Sri lanka

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLIMATOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; HOUSING; OFFICE BUILDINGS; SIMULATION;

DWELLINGS; PASSIVE COOLING; SRI LANKA;

COOLING;

EID: 0030101906     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-7788(95)00943-4     Document Type: Article

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