Load control using building thermal mass

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 292-301

  Braun, James E ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRUCTURAL LOADS; THERMOANALYSIS;

THERMAL MASS;

SOLAR BUILDINGS;

EID: 0041428070     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1592184     Document Type: Review

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