Effect of building re-entrant shape on performance of air-cooled condensing units

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 143-152

  Chow, T T ^a   Lin, Z ^a   Wang, Q W ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HEAT LOSSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

BUILDING RE-ENTRANTS; ENERGY EVALUATION MODELS; HIGH-RISE RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS; SPLIT-TYPE AIR CONDITIONERS;

TALL BUILDINGS;

EID: 0033752061     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-7788(99)00048-1     Document Type: Article

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