Passive cooling in a low-energy office building

Solar Energy

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 682-696

  Breesch, H ^a   Bossaer, A ^b   Janssens, A ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Cenergie cvba ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Earth to air heat exchanger; Natural night ventilation; TRNSYS COMIS

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HEAT EXCHANGERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VENTILATION;

EARTH-TO-AIR HEAT EXCHANGERS; NATURAL NIGHT VENTILATION; PASSIVE COOLING; TRNSYS-COMIS;

OFFICE BUILDINGS;

COOLING; HEAT EXCHANGER; HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 27744548574     PISSN: 0038092X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2004.12.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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