Modelling and measurement of airflow and aerosol particle distribution in a ventilated two-zone chamber

Building and Environment

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 417-423

  Lu, Weizhen ^a,b   Howarth, Andrew T ^a   Adam, Nor ^c   Riffati, Saffa B ^c  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; KINETIC THEORY OF GASES; MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); SIMULATION;

AEROSOL PARTICLE DISTRIBUTION; AIRFLOW; VENTILATED TWO-ZONE CHAMBER;

VENTILATION;

AEROSOLS; AIR FLOW; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; MODELLING; VENTILATION;

EID: 0030237243     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0360-1323(96)00019-4     Document Type: Article

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