Space Heating Dynamics

Verification of models previously advanced for description of the active and passive modes of baseboard heating and forced air convection is given. Results of tests conducted under rigidly controlled conditions at the former Electric Space Conditioning Institute are shown to support the proposed models. Sequences of heating and cooling responses for the two means of energy input are evaluated by means of incremental forms of the fundamental equations. It is found that the dynamic responses are functions of the means of energy input.