Ventilation Performance and Indoor Air Quality in Workstations under Different Supply Air Systems: A Numerical Approach

Indoor and Built Environment

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 160-167

  Jiang, Z ^a   Haghighat, F ^b   Chen, Q ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Indoor air quality; Numerical approach; Ventilation; Workstation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004432444     PISSN: 1420326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1420326X9700600306     Document Type: Article

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