Investigation of the performance of a ventilated wall

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2167-2178

  Seferis, P ^a   Strachan, P ^a   Dimoudi, A ^b   Androutsopoulos, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^c Centre for Renewable Energy Sources   (Greece)

Author keywords

Experimental performance; Thermal and airflow simulation; Ventilated wall

Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; AIR CHANNELS; AIR FLOW; AIRFLOW SIMULATION; BUOYANCY INDUCED FLOW; DOUBLE-SKIN FACADES; ENERGY EFFICIENT BUILDING; ENERGY PERFORMANCE; ENTIRE SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL-FRIENDLY; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE; RADIANT BARRIERS; SIMULATION MODEL; SIMULATION PROGRAM; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; TEST CELL; THERMAL BENEFITS; THERMAL PERFORMANCE; VARIOUS CONFIGURATION; VENTILATED WALL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FACADES; HEAT CONVECTION; INVESTMENTS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE TESTING; THERMOANALYSIS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

VENTILATION;

EID: 79960709918     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2011.04.023     Document Type: Article

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