Harvesting heat energy from asphalt pavements: development of and comparison between numerical models and experiment

International Journal of Sustainable Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 159-169

  Mallick, Rajib B ^a   Chen, Bao Liang ^a   Bhowmick, Sankha ^b  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

asphalt; urban heat island

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL VARIABLES; FLOWING WATERS; HEAT ENERGY; LARGE SCALE EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL MODELLING; PIPE DIAMETER; URBAN HEAT ISLAND;

ASPHALT; ASPHALT PAVEMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODELS; SUN;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84860349697     PISSN: 19397038     EISSN: 19397046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19397038.2011.574742     Document Type: Article

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