Rain water runoff from porous building facades: Implementation and application of a first-order runoff model coupled to a HAM model

Building and Environment

Volumn 64, Issue , 2013, Pages 177-186

  Van den Brande, Thijs ^a   Blocken, Bert ^b   Roels, Staf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biocide leaching; Building envelopes; Driving rain; Heat air moisture transfer modelling; Moisture runoff

Indexed keywords

BUILDING ENVELOPES; CAPILLARY ABSORPTION; CAPILLARY MOISTURE CONTENT; DRIVING RAIN; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; MOISTURE SOURCES; STATE OF THE ART; WIND-DRIVEN RAIN (WDR);

CAPILLARY FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRIERS (MATERIALS); FACADES; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE CONTROL; RAIN;

RUNOFF;

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT; BUILDING; LEACHING; MOISTURE TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PESTICIDE; RAINWATER; RUNOFF;

EID: 84876720986     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2013.03.014     Document Type: Article

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