Improved Treatment of Infiltrative Building Heat Losses and Effective Outside Temperatures; LOCATION = North America;

Keller, D. V.;
air infiltration, wind, crack, energy losses, energy use in buildings, temperature, theoretical modelling
Bibliographic info:
RESEARCH.LOC = Ktech Corp., Albuquerque, N.M.; TYPE = REPORT; in English

This report describes a technique which models the infiltration process for an entire enclosure more accurately than standard methods. Both air flow and convective/conductive heat transfer are accounted for to (a) improve building heat load calculations, (b) determine the important characteristics of existing (and new) buildings for infiltration heat loads, and (c) account more accurately for wind effects.

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