Coupled Multi-zone Hygrothermal-airflow Analysis: Simulation, Experiments and Applications - Softcover

Qin, Menghao

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3843373787 ISBN 13: 9783843373784

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

Combined heat and multi-zone airflow modeling is today widely recognized as necessary to predict air distribution in partitioned spaces and to perform precise energy calculations. In addition to the information about energy and airflow behavior, moisture content is also an important parameter in the design of comfortable and healthy buildings. As moisture is strongly coupled to the energy and to the airflow, vapor transfer in buildings has to be investigated using integrated heat, air and moisture (HAM) models. During the past decade, a number of HAM models have been developed and validated worldwide for analysis the hygrothermal transport in buildings. However, very few models incorporate the critical hygrothermal interactions between the building envelope and multi-zone airflow. The objective of this book is to develop a model for predicting coupled multi-zone hygrothermal?airflow transfer in air-conditioned buildings. The whole building heat, moisture and airflow transfer model calculates the interactions between multi-zone airflow and main hygrothermal effects in a building.

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About the Author

Dr. Menghao Qin is Professor and Director of Center for Sustainable Building Research, Nanjing University China. Prof. Qin?s recent research mainly focuses on the hygrothermal performance of buildings, whole building HAM simulation and sustainable building design etc.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 3843373787
• ISBN 13: 9783843373784
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 136