Utilization of cool ceiling with roof solar chimney in Thailand: The experimental and numerical analysis

Renewable Energy

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 623-633

  Chungloo, Sudaporn ^a   Limmeechokchai, Bundit ^a  

^a THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

CFD; Natural ventilation; Passive cooling in building; Solar chimney

Indexed keywords

AIR; APPLICATIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CEILINGS; CELLS; CHIMNEYS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COOLING; CYTOLOGY; DOMES; DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW RATE; FLUID DYNAMICS; FREE VOLUME; HEAT TRANSFER; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; ROOFS;

AIR TEMPERATURES; AIRFLOW RATES; CEILING TEMPERATURES; CFD; COMBINED SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; MEAN COOLING; MEAN VALUES; MEASURED VALUES; MIDDLE SECTIONS; NATURAL VENTILATION; NUMERICAL MODELS; PASSIVE COOLING; PASSIVE COOLING IN BUILDING; SOLAR CHIMNEY; SOLAR CHIMNEYS; THAILAND; VOLUME FLOW RATES; WALL TEMPERATURES;

SOLAR SYSTEM;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIRFLOW; BUILDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COOLING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEAT TRANSFER; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; ROOF;

EID: 54149107614     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2008.05.026     Document Type: Article

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