Calculation of convective heat transfer coefficients of room surfaces for natural convection

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 219-227

  Awbi, Hazim B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Commercial buildings; Computational fluid dynamics; Heat transfer; Laboratory; Residential buildings; Simulation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DATA REDUCTION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

INTERNAL ROOM SURFACES;

CLIMATE CONTROL;

EID: 0032188530     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-7788(98)00022-x     Document Type: Article

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