Wall heat loss from intermittently conditioned spaces-The dynamic influence of structural and operational parameters

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1022-1031

  Tsilingiris, P T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Building heat transfer; Heat capacity distribution; Intermittent heating load; Transient wall performance; Wall thermal time constant

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING; SOLAR RADIATION; VENTILATION; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

BUILDING HEAT TRANSFER; HEAT CAPACITY DISTRIBUTION; INTERMITTENT HEATING LOAD; TRANSIENT WALL PERFORMANCE; WALL THERMAL TIME CONSTANT;

HEAT LOSSES;

EID: 33646780220     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2005.11.012     Document Type: Article

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