Combined Heat, Air and Moisture (HAM) Transfer Model for Porous Building Materials

In the building science area, mathematical models are developed to provide better indoor thermal comfort with lower energy consumption. Although the fact moisture and air transfer can strongly affect the temperature distribution within constructions, whole-building simulation codes do not take into account the convective air transport in porous materials. In this way, this article presents a heat, air, and moisture (HAM) transfer model based on driving potentials of temperature, air pressure, and water vapor pressure gradients for consolidated porous material in both pendular and funicular states. The solution of the set of governing equations has been simultaneously obtained using the MTDMA (MultiTriDiagonal-Matrix Algorithm) for the three potentials. To conclude, results are presented showing the impact of convective terms on the HAM transfer through a two-layer porous building envelope.

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