Uncertainty in peak cooling load calculations

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1010-1018

  Domínguez Muñoz, Fernando ^a   Cejudo López, José M ^a   Carrillo Andrés, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Building simulation; Cooling load; Monte Carlo simulation; Sensitivity analysis; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BUILDING MODEL; BUILDING PROJECTS; BUILDING SIMULATION; COOLING LOAD; GLOBAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; INPUT DATAS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NEW APPROACHES; PEAK COOLING LOAD; PEAK LOAD; RANDOM COMPONENTS; STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS; STOCHASTIC SOLUTION; WORST CASE SCENARIO;

AIR CONDITIONING; BUILDINGS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; COOLING; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SAFETY FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 77951143288     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2010.01.013     Document Type: Article

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