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Fig. 1 Changes of insulation thickness in walls in Europe (Papadopoulos
2005
); reprinted here
with kind permission of Elsevier, 2013
Fig. 2 Changes of insulation thickness in roofs in Europe (Papadopoulos
2005
); reprinted here
with kind permission of Elsevier, 2013
mathematical models and simulations, see below sections of heat and mass transfer
models.
Building insulation materials can be classified in a number of different ways
according to different criteria. Here, we broadly classify them at three levels in a
hierarchical tree-like structure, see Fig.
3
. At the highest level, building insulations