Transient analysis of heat transfer across the residential building roof with PCM and wood wool- A case study by numerical simulation approach

Archives of Civil Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 483-497

  Prakash, D ^a   Ravikumar, P ^b  

^a ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Mahendra Engineering College   (India)

Author keywords

Heat transfer; Numerical simulation; Phase change material; Residential building roof; Wood wool

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL SIMULATION APPROACHES; RESIDENTIAL BUILDING; ROOF STRUCTURES;

BUILDINGS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCRETES; HEAT TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODELS; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS; WEATHERING; WOOD; WOOL; YARN;

ROOFS;

BUILDINGS; CONCRETE; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROOFING; WEATHERING; WOOD WOOL;

EID: 84891768753     PISSN: 12302945     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/ace-2013-0026     Document Type: Article

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