Benefits derivable from connecting the bottom and top walls of attic enclosures with insulated vertical side walls

Numerical Heat Transfer; Part A: Applications

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 175-193

  Ridouane, El Hassan ^a   Campo, Antonio ^b   Hasnaoui, Mohammed ^a  

^a CADI AYYAD UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^b University of Vermont   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; HEAT TRANSFER;

ATTIC SPACES; BUOYANT AIR CIRCULATION;

WALL FLOW;

EID: 29144535640     PISSN: 10407782     EISSN: 15210634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10407780500302257     Document Type: Article

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