Comfort models and cooling of buildings in the Mediterranean zone

Advances in Building Energy Research

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 167-200

  Pagliano, Lorenzo ^a   Zangheri, Paolo ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Air velocity; Building design; Comfort categories; Dynamic simulation; Thermal comfort

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955169118     PISSN: 17512549     EISSN: 17562201     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3763/aber.2009.0406     Document Type: Article

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