Heat Transfer through Building Envelope

Activity

Course

Title

HEAT TRANSFER THROUGH BUILDING ENVELOPE

Objectives

Giving students the tools needed for studying and depicting by mathematical models heat transfer through components of building envelope

Contents

Recalls of conduction and combined convective and radiative heat transfer.

Advanced conduction: anisotropic media and unsteady heat transfer.

Calculation methods for complex building components at steady state.

Definition and evaluation of linear thermal transmittance in thermal bridges.

Simplified and conventional calculation of unsteady heat transfer. Transfer function, Laplace transform, "Carrier" method.

Introduction to analysis of complex building components.

Language

Italian/English

Teacher

Emanuele Habib

Teacher's role

Tenured professor in Technical physics - Sapienza, Università di Roma

Learning tools

Lectures and practical, project work

Commitment

30 lecture + 10 practical + project work

Credits

12

 

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