Building Heat Transfer

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

1 Elementary Steady-State Heat Transfer.

2 Physical Constants of Materials.

3 Conduction-Dominated Systems.

4 Thermal Circuit Theory.

5 Heat Transfer by Air Movement.

6 Heat Transfer by Radiation.

7 Design Model for Steady-State Room Heat Exchange.

8 Moisture Movement in Rooms.

9 Solar Heating.

10 The Wall with Lumped Elements.

11 Wall Conduction Transfer Coefficients for a Discretised System.

12 The Fourier Continuity Equation in One Dimension.

13 Analytical Transient Models for Step Excitation.

14 Simple Models for Room Response.

15 Wall Parameters for Periodic Excitation.

16 Frequency-Domain Models for Room Response.

17 Wall Conduction Transfer Coefficients for a Layered System.

18 Accuracy of Temperature Estimates Using Transfer Coefficients.

19 Room Thermal Response Using Transfer Coefficients.

Principal Notation.

References.

Bibliography.

Index.