Transient analysis and improvement of indoor thermal comfort for an air-conditioned room with thermal insulations

Ain Shams Engineering Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 947-956

  Prakash, D ^a  

^a SASTRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Air conditioned room; Building insulation; Computational fluid dynamics; Predicted mean vote; Thermal comfort

Indexed keywords

AIR; AIR CONDITIONING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; THERMAL COMFORT; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS; WOOL; YARN;

AIR CONDITIONING UNITS; BUILDING ENVELOP; BUILDING INSULATIONS; HEAT GAINS; INDOOR THERMAL COMFORT; INSULATION LAYERS; PREDICTED MEAN VOTE; SUPPLY AIR TEMPERATURE;

THERMAL INSULATION;

EID: 84940451471     PISSN: 20904479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asej.2015.01.005     Document Type: Article

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