Effects of roof pitch on air flow and heating load of sealed and vented attics for gable-roof residential buildings

Sustainability

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1999-2021

  Wang, Shimin ^a   Shen, Zhigang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Air flow; Attic; CFD; Heating load; Roof pitch; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872396446     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su4091999     Document Type: Article

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