Coaxial personalized ventilation system and window performance for human thermal comfort in asymmetrical environment

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 111, Issue , 2016, Pages 253-266

  Antoun, Sylvie ^a   Ghaddar, Nesreen ^a   Ghali, Kamel ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Ceiling personalized ventilation; Energy savings; Segmental asymmetric comfort; Window performance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; GLAZES; OFFICE BUILDINGS; RADIATION EFFECTS; THERMAL COMFORT;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; DIFFUSE SHORTWAVE RADIATIONS; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; HUMAN THERMAL COMFORT; OVERALL THERMAL COMFORTS; PERSONALIZED VENTILATION; PERSONALIZED VENTILATION SYSTEMS; SEGMENTAL ASYMMETRIC COMFORT;

VENTILATION;

EID: 84949667361     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2015.11.030     Document Type: Article

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