AC pressurisation: Analysis by non-linear optimisation

Building Services Engineering Research and Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 65-71

  Dewsbury, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; BUILDINGS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ESTIMATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; LEAKAGE (FLUID); MEASUREMENT ERRORS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PRESSURE DROP;

AC PRESSURISATION; AIRTIGHTNESS MEASUREMENT; NONLINEAR OPTIMISATION; PRESSURE LOSS;

PRESSURIZATION;

EID: 0029694740     PISSN: 01436244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/014362449601700202     Document Type: Article

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