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Envelope and indoor thermal capacitance of buildings.

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

Type of article: Article

Summary

The real or effective thermal capacitance of buildings quantifies the energy stored within and differs considerably from the apparent thermal capacitance, which results by adding distributed specific heats of building elements into a lumped value. A method is developed for analyzing the total effective capacitance into components concerning the building envelope or parts of it (e.g. ceiling, floor, etc.), the interior partitions, the furnishings, etc. The developed procedure is based on a finite-difference solution of a set of differential equations describing the transient heat conduction in all elements of a building. Also, a correlation is developed, which links the effective to the easily-calculated apparent thermal capacitance of buildings.

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  • Original title: Envelope and indoor thermal capacitance of buildings.
  • Record ID : 2001-0393
  • Languages: English
  • Source: Applied Thermal Engineering - vol. 19 - n. 7
  • Publication date: 1999/07

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