Sensitivity analysis of predicted night cooling performance to internal convective heat transfer modelling

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2429-2441

  Goethals, Kim ^a   Breesch, Hilde ^b   Janssens, Arnold ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b ODISEE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Building energy simulation; Internal convective heat transfer; Night cooling; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY CORRELATION; BELGIUM; BUILDING DESIGN; BUILDING ENCLOSURE; BUILDING ENERGY SIMULATIONS; CONVECTION CORRELATION; CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER; CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; COOLING PERFORMANCE; DESIGN PARAMETERS; ENERGY SIMULATION; FLOW REGIMES; MODERATE CLIMATE; NIGHT COOLING; PASSIVE COOLING TECHNIQUES; SIMULATION RESULT;

ALGORITHMS; DESIGN; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

HEAT CONVECTION;

EID: 79960738550     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2011.05.033     Document Type: Article

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