Modelling building energy processes - Heat & mass transfer through
solids
Key concepts
- heat conduction;
- moisture transport;
- theoretical basis;
- driving forces;
- diffusion;
- capillary transport;
- principal approaches;
- discretisation;
- 1-dimensional;
- multi-dimensional;
- variable thermophysical properties;
- grid/mesh size;
- dimensionless numbers Biot, Fourier;
- stability;
- accuracy;
- computational effort.
Lecture structure
- mechanism for heat & mass transfer through solids
- heat conduction: driving forces
- Fourier & Biot numbers
- penetration ..............
- moisture transport: driving forces
- diffusion -> vapour pressure, relative humidity (RH)
- capillary forces -> surface pressures
- time-dependent thermophysical properties
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