Influence of ambient air relative humidity and temperature on thermal properties and unsteady thermal response characteristics of laterite wall houses

Building and Environment

Volumn 99, Issue , 2016, Pages 170-183

  Shaik, Saboor ^a   Talanki Puttaranga Setty, Ashok Babu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KARNATAKA   (India)

Author keywords

Decrement factor; Laterite rock; Thermal properties; Time lag; Unsteady state thermal heat transfer characteristics

Indexed keywords

HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING; HUMIDITY CONTROL; MATLAB; MATRIX ALGEBRA; ONE DIMENSIONAL; ROCKS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOILS; SPECIFIC HEAT; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DECREMENT FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL HEAT FLOW; RELATIVE HUMIDITY AND TEMPERATURES; THERMAL HEAT; THERMAL RESPONSE CHARACTERISTICS; TIME LAG;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

AMBIENT AIR; BUILDING; HEAT TRANSFER; LATERITE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

INDIA;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 84957060801     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2016.01.030     Document Type: Article

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