Cooling performance of roof ponds with gunny bags floating on water surface as compared with a movable insulation

Renewable Energy

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1373-1385

  Tang, Runsheng ^a   Etzion, Y ^b  

^a YUNNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Evaporative cooling; Roof pond

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING SYSTEMS; EVAPORATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; WATER;

COOLING TECHNIQUE; FREE WATER SURFACE; ROOF PONDS; WATER EVAPORATION;

THERMAL INSULATION;

COOLING;

EID: 14644435719     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2004.10.008     Document Type: Article

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