TY - JOUR
T1 - Conservative modelling of the moisture and heat transfer in building components under atmospheric excitation
AU - Janssen, H.
AU - Blocken, B.J.E.
AU - Carmeliet, J.E.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - While the transfer equations for moisture and heat in building components are currently undergoing standardisation, atmospheric boundary conditions, conservative modelling and numerical efficiency are not addressed. In a first part, this paper adds a comprehensive description of those boundary conditions, emphasising wind-driven rain and vapour exchange, the main moisture supply and removal mechanism, respectively. In the second part the numerical implementation is tackled, with specific attention to the monotony of the spatial discretisation, and to the mass and energy conservation of the temporal discretisation. Both issues are illustrated with exemplary hygrothermal simulations. Numerical efficiency is treated in two follow-up papers.
AB - While the transfer equations for moisture and heat in building components are currently undergoing standardisation, atmospheric boundary conditions, conservative modelling and numerical efficiency are not addressed. In a first part, this paper adds a comprehensive description of those boundary conditions, emphasising wind-driven rain and vapour exchange, the main moisture supply and removal mechanism, respectively. In the second part the numerical implementation is tackled, with specific attention to the monotony of the spatial discretisation, and to the mass and energy conservation of the temporal discretisation. Both issues are illustrated with exemplary hygrothermal simulations. Numerical efficiency is treated in two follow-up papers.
U2 - 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2006.06.048
DO - 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2006.06.048
M3 - Article
SN - 0017-9310
VL - 50
SP - 1128
EP - 1140
JO - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
JF - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
IS - 5-6
ER -
