Influence of the thermal inertia in the European simplified procedures for the assessment of buildings' energy performance

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 4514-4524

  Evangelisti, Luca ^a   Battista, Gabriele ^a   Guattari, Claudia ^a   Basilicata, Carmine ^a   de Lieto Vollaro, Roberto ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Building energy saving; Surface temperatures; Thermal inertia; Thermal lag; TRNSYS

Indexed keywords

DEMAND ANALYSIS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EUROPE;

EID: 84905366788     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su6074514     Document Type: Article

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