A simple time domain calculation method for transient heat transfer models

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1682-1690

  Xu, Xinhua ^a   Wang, Shengwei ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Finite differential model; Matrix exponential function; State space equation; Time domain; Transient heat transfer model

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CONDUCTION TRANSFER CONDUCTION (CTF); ROOT FINDING; STATE EQUATION;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 44349101742     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2008.02.029     Document Type: Article

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