Qualitative comparison of North American and U.K. Cooling load calculation methods

HVAC and R Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 75-99

  Rees, Simon J ^a   Spitler, Jeffrey D ^a   Davies, Morris G ^b   Haves, Philip ^c  

^a Oklahoma State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COOLING LOAD CALCULATION; HEAT BALANCE METHOD;

CLIMATE CONTROL;

EID: 0033874578     PISSN: 10789669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10789669.2000.10391251     Document Type: Article

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