Natural cooling of stand-alone houses using solar chimney and evaporative cooling cavity

Renewable Energy

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2040-2052

  Maerefat, M ^a   Haghighi, A P ^a  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Evaporative cooling cavity; Passive cooling; Solar chimney

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION EQUATIONS; EVAPORATIVE COOLING; GEOMETRIC PARAMETER; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; HOT ARID; INDOOR AIR; INDOOR THERMAL COMFORT; LIVING ROOM; LOW ENERGIES; NATURAL VENTILATION; OUTDOOR-AIR TEMPERATURE; PASSIVE COOLING; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SOLAR CHIMNEY; SOLAR HOUSE; SOLAR INTENSITIES; STAND -ALONE;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; EVAPORATION; EVAPORATIVE COOLING SYSTEMS; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMAL COMFORT;

SOLAR CHIMNEYS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARID ENVIRONMENT; COOLING; GEOMETRY; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; VENTILATION;

EID: 77950917794     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2010.02.005     Document Type: Article

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