Development of an integrated dynamic thermal bridging assessment environment

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 375-382

  Ben Nakhi, Abdullatif E ^a  

^a The Public Authority for Applied Education and Training   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Built environment; Energy; Numerical modeling; Simulation; Thermal bridging; Validation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUILDINGS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDENSATION; FUNGI; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

THERMAL BRIDGING;

THERMAL LOAD;

EID: 0037401717     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-7788(02)00106-8     Document Type: Article

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