Comfortable floor temperatures for radiant floor heating in Southern China

Airflow and Heat Transfer in the Slot-Vented Room with Radiant Floor Heating Unit

Radiant floor heating has received increasing attention due to its diverse advantages, especially the energy saving as compared to the conventional dwelling heating system. This paper presents a numerical investigation of airflow and heat transfer in the slot-vented room with the radiant floor heating unit. Combination of fluid convection and thermal radiation has been implemented through the t...

Application of system identification and numerical optimization to a floor radiant heating control in a Solar House

A water-based floor radiant heating system (WFRH) is used in a Solar Decathlon House for temperature and thermal comfort control. To minimize the energy consumption, while maintaining the thermal comfort, computer simulations are utilized to evaluate different control strategies before actual implementation. However, there are two potential challenges which have not been addressed before: first...

Entropy “floor” and Effervescent Heating of Intracluster Gas

Recent X-ray observations of clusters of galaxies have shown that the entropy of the intracluster medium (ICM), even at radii as large as half the virial radius, is higher than that expected from gravitational processes alone. This is thought to be the result of nongravitational processes influencing the physical state of the ICM. In this paper, we investigate whether heating by a central AGN c...

XGSP-Floor: Floor Control for Synchronous and Ubiquitous Collaboration

With the advances in a variety of software/hardware technologies and wireless networking, there is coming a need for ubiquitous collaboration which allows people to access information systems independent of their access device and their physical capabilities and to communicate with other people in anytime and anywhere. Also, with the maturity of evolving computing paradigms and collaborative ap...

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