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Apparent and effective thermal capacitance of buildings.

Author(s) : ANTONOPOULOS K. A., KORONAKI E.

Type of article: Article

Summary

The authors state that the apparent thermal capacitance of a building is obtained by adding the distributed specific heats of all the building elements. It differs considerably from the effective thermal capacitance, which is calculated in the article by forcing the solution of a lumped-system differential equation to follow the experimentally validated, finite-difference solution of a rigorous set of coupled differential equations describing the heat transport and energy balance in buildings. Calculates the effective thermal capacitance for various characteristic cases of Greek buildings and provides a simple procedure for approximating the transient thermal behaviour of buildings.

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  • Original title: Apparent and effective thermal capacitance of buildings.
  • Record ID : 1999-2410
  • Languages: English
  • Source: Energy, Int. J. - vol. 23 - n. 3
  • Publication date: 1998/03

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