Optimum placement of condensing units of split-type air-conditioners by numerical simulation

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1268-1272

  Avara, Abdollah ^a   Daneshgar, Ehsan ^a  

^a PERSIAN GULF UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

CFD; Condenser; Optimization; Split type air conditioner; Turbulence equations

Indexed keywords

APARTMENT HOUSES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OFFICE BUILDINGS; ROOFS; TURBULENCE MODELS;

CONDENSERS; OUTDOOR CONDENSING UNITS; SPLIT TYPE AIR CONDITIONERS; TURBULENCE EQUATIONS;

AIR CONDITIONING;

EID: 41749100388     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2007.11.011     Document Type: Article

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