Comfort temperatures and operative temperatures in an office with different heating methods

HB 2006 - Healthy Buildings: Creating a Healthy Indoor Environment for People, Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 47-52

  Myhren, J ^a   Holmberg, S ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Comfort temperature; Computational Fluid Dynamics; Low temperature heating; Operative temperature; Radiation asymmetry

Indexed keywords

CFD MODELS; COMFORT TEMPERATURES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; COOLING DEVICES; HEATING METHOD; LOSS CALCULATION; LOW TEMPERATURE HEATING; OPERATIVE TEMPERATURE; RADIATION ASYMMETRY; RADIATIVE EXCHANGE; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; THERMAL COMFORT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84871575806     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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