A study of coupled heat and mass transfer across a porous building component in intertropical conditions

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 461-469

  Djongyang, Noël ^a   Tchinda, René ^b   Njomo, Donatien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DSCHANG   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

Heat and mass transfer; Intertropical conditions; Periodic solution; Porous building component

Indexed keywords

BUILDING COMPONENTS; BUILDING MATERIALS; CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT; HEAT TRANSFER; MOISTURE CONTROL;

A PLANES; ANALYTICAL METHODS; ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; CAMEROON; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; CLIMATIC REGIONS; COUPLED HEAT AND MASS TRANSFERS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; HEAT AND MOISTURE TRANSFERS; INTERTROPICAL CONDITIONS; MOISTURE CONTENTS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; PERIODIC SOLUTION; POROUS BUILDING COMPONENT;

MASS TRANSFER;

EID: 62649094414     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2008.11.009     Document Type: Article

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