Latest Research of Building Heat and Mass Transfer

Dear Colleagues,

Heat and mass transfer processes are present in all engineering applications and play a fundamental role in improving the efficiency of energy conversion systems. Buildings are one of the largest consumers of thermal energy, and therefore the main efforts of researchers are aimed at minimizing energy demand. This can be achieved by promoting the construction of buildings with better thermal insulation properties of the building envelope and higher efficiency of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. Any reliable assessment of the energy efficiency of a building includes the identification and modeling of heat and mass transfer phenomena, both in the building envelope and inside the building, and in engineering systems for generation, recovery, storage, and distribution of energy.

Thus, this Special Issue is aimed at acquainting with recent advances in experimental analysis, computer modeling with the assessment of the energy characteristics of a building by identifying thermal and mass transfer processes in building envelopes, in the volume of buildings, and in engineering energy supply systems.

• Energy assessment of the building and computer modeling;
• Passive energy saving in the building;
• Analytical and numerical study of the combined transfer of heat and moisture in porous building materials;
• Processes of heat and mass transfer in building envelopes and engineering systems of generation, recovery, storage, and distribution of energy.

Dr. Hanna Koshlak
Prof. Dr. Anatoliy Pavlenko
Guest Editors

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