A survey of wind convection coefficient correlations for building envelope energy systems' modeling

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 8-9, 2008, Pages 801-808

  Palyvos, J A ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

External convective losses; Forced convection heat loss; Review of heat convective coefficients; Wind loss coefficient

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; CORRELATION METHODS; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT LOSSES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EXTERNAL CONVECTIVE LOSSES; FORCED CONVECTION HEAT LOSS; REVIEW OF HEAT CONVECTIVE COEFFICIENTS; WIND LOSS COEFFICIENT;

WIND POWER;

EID: 40049105510     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2007.12.005     Document Type: Review

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