Reliability of transient heat and moisture modeling for hygroscopic buffering

ASHRAE Transactions

Volumn 115 PART 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 111-125

  Roels, Staf ^a   James, Chris ^b   Talukdar, Prabal ^c   Simonson, Carey J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; DYNAMIC BEHAVIOURS; DYNAMIC EXPERIMENT; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GYPSUM BOARD; IN-BUILDINGS; MATERIAL PROPERTY; MEAN VALUES; MODEL VALIDATION; MOISTURE MODELING; MOISTURE TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; POROUS BUILDING MATERIAL; ROUND ROBIN; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SORPTION ISOTHERMS; TRANSIENT HEAT; VAPOR PERMEABILITY;

BUILDING MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT; GYPSUM; HEATING; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE CONTROL; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; SORPTION;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 77950829017     PISSN: 00012505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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