Investigation of the thermal performance of a passive solar test-room with wall latent heat storage

Building and Environment

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 405-410

  Athienitis, A K ^a   Liu, C ^a   Hawes, D ^a   Banu, D ^a   Feldman, D ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GYPSUM; HEAT STORAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; THERMAL INSULATION; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

BUTYL STEARATE; GYPSUM BOARD; INSIDE WALL LINING; LATENT HEAT STORAGE; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; TRANSIENT HEAT TRANSFER;

PASSIVE SOLAR BUILDINGS;

EID: 0031236578     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-1323(97)00009-7     Document Type: Article

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