Internal convective heat transfer modeling: Critical review and discussion of experimentally derived correlations

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2227-2239

  Peeters, L ^a   Beausoleil Morrison, I ^b   Novoselac, A ^c  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Building; Convection; Convection coefficient; Convection correlation; Critical review; Energy simulation; Load calculation; Measurement; Modeling; Review

Indexed keywords

AIR; AIR CONDITIONING; BUILDINGS; HEAT RADIATION; MEASUREMENT; MODELS; REVIEWS; TWO PHASE FLOW;

CONVECTION COEFFICIENTS; CONVECTION CORRELATION; CRITICAL REVIEW; ENERGY SIMULATION; LOAD CALCULATION;

HEAT CONVECTION;

EID: 79960701291     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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