Thermal performance of a mobile home with light envelope

Building Simulation

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 331-338

  Cardinale, Nicola ^a   Stefanizzi, Pietro ^b   Rospi, Gianluca ^a   Augenti, Valentina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

comfort indexes; dynamic energy simulation; light envelope; mobile home; PCM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862976192     PISSN: 19963599     EISSN: 19968744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12273-010-0017-0     Document Type: Article

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