Driving rain on building envelopes - I. Numerical estimation and full-scale experimental verification

Journal of Thermal Envelope and Building Science

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 61-84

  Blocken, Bert ^a   Carmeliet, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING ENVELOPES; DRIVING RAIN; HEAT-AIR-MOISTURE (HAM) TRANSFER ANALYSIS MODELS;

AIR; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DYNAMIC LOADS; ESTIMATION; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; RAIN; WIND EFFECTS;

BUILDING COMPONENTS;

EID: 0033718334     PISSN: 10971963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1106/UJ12-PFHK-VQFP-8GAL     Document Type: Article

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