Three-dimensional earth-contact heat flows: A comparison of simulated and measured data for a buried structure

Renewable Energy

Volumn 15, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 356-359

  Adjali, M H ^a   Davies, M ^b   Littler, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Building; Computing; Conduction; Earth contact; Energy; Heat flow; Multi dimensional

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLAR BUILDINGS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

EARTH CONTACT HEAT TRANSFER; HEAT FLOW;

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

EID: 0032156740     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-1481(98)00186-4     Document Type: Article

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