The cooling and heating potential of an earth tube system in buildings

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 486-494

  Lee, Kwang Ho ^a   Strand, Richard K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooling and heating potential; Earth tube; EnergyPlus; Parametric analysis

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; COOLING SYSTEMS; FLOW RATE; PARAMETRIC DEVICES; PIPING SYSTEMS;

EARTH TUBE; ENERGYPLUS; HEATING POTENTIAL; PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS;

TUBES (COMPONENTS);

EID: 37349023323     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2007.04.003     Document Type: Article

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