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In building materials, by taking into account heat and moisture storage, latent heat effects, and liquid and convective transport of moisture. This coupling is available when a Building Material feature of the Heat Transfer interface and a Building Material feature of the Moisture Transport interface are active on the same domain. It can be applied to the computation of different moisture variations phenomena in building components, such as drying of initial construction moisture, condensation due to migration of moisture from outside to inside in summer, and moisture accumulation by interstitial condensation due to diffusion in the winter. The thermodynamics properties of the building material depend both on the dry solid properties and on the moisture content, and the evaporation of liquid water adds a latent heat source in the diffusion equation for temperature. Reversely, the variations of moisture content due to liquid transport (capillary flow) and vapor diffusion are temperature dependent.
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In moist air, by modeling moisture transport by vapor diffusion and convection, and heat transfer by conduction and convection. The thermodynamics properties of moist air depend on the moisture content, whereas the temperature is used to define the saturation conditions for vapor concentration. This coupling is available when a Fluid or Moist Air feature of the Heat Transfer interface and a Moist Air feature of the Moisture Transport interface are active on the same domain. The Fluid type should be set to Moist air if the Fluid feature is used, to take fully advantage of the coupling.
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It defines the relative humidity (with corresponding reference temperature and pressure) in order to set the corresponding inputs in the Moist Air feature of the Heat Transfer interface.
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It defines the moisture storage function w and the vapor permeability δp (or vapor resistance factor μ) in order to set the corresponding inputs in the Building Material feature of the Heat Transfer interface.
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It defines the temperature T in order to set the model inputs in the features of the Moisture Transport interface.
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Evaporative Cooling of Water: Application Library path Heat_Transfer_Module/Phase_Change/evaporative_cooling
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