Experimental approach to the contribution of plant-covered walls to the thermal behaviour of building envelopes

Building and Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1024-1038

  Eumorfopoulou, E A ^a   Kontoleon, K J ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Plant covered wall; Temperature field; Thermal inertia; Thermal performance

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; COOLING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ENERGY CONSERVATION; MIXED CONVECTION; SOLAR BUILDINGS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; THERMOANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; BUILDING ENVELOPES; BUILDING FLOORS; BUILDING SURFACES; BUILT ENVIRONMENTS; COOLING POTENTIALS; DYNAMIC THERMAL CHARACTERISTICS; ENERGY SAVINGS; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; EXPERIMENTAL SET-UP; EXTERNAL SURFACES; HEAT FLOWS; INSULATED WALLS; PEAK TEMPERATURES; PLANT-COVERED WALL; RADIATION ABSORPTIONS; TEMPERATURE FIELD; TEMPERATURE VARIATIONS; THERMAL ANALYSIS; THERMAL BEHAVIOURS; THERMAL INERTIA; THERMAL PERFORMANCE; URBAN AREAS; URBAN CLIMATES; WALL SECTIONS; WALL SURFACES; WARM CLIMATES;

WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

BUILDING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MICROCLIMATE; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 58849139560     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2008.07.004     Document Type: Article

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