The effects of interior emissivity and room layout on forced air space-conditioning power usage

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

Volumn 89, Issue , 2015, Pages 216-228

  Buckmaster, David J ^a   Abramson, Alexis R ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Buildings; Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Emissivity; Envelope loss; Space conditioning

Indexed keywords

AIR; BUILDINGS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; FLUID DYNAMICS;

EMISSIVITY; FORCED AIRS; INTERIOR SURFACES; LOW EMISSIVITIES; POWER REQUIREMENT; SIMPLE MODELING; SPACE CONDITIONING; VENTILATION REQUIREMENTS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 84930945628     PISSN: 00179310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2015.04.059     Document Type: Article

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