Air exchange within the Buddhist cave temples at Yungang, China

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 30, Issue 23, 1996, Pages 3995-4006

  Christoforou, Christos S ^a   Salmon, Lynn G ^a   Cass, Glen R ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Cave temples; Fluid mechanics; Mathematical modeling; Natural convection; Yungang grottoes

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR TEMPERATURE; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; AIRFLOW; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CHINA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FILTRATION; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; VELOCITY;

AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FLOW PATTERNS; FLUID MECHANICS; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL CONVECTION; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

AIR EXCHANGE RATES; AIR FLOWS; BUDDHIST CAVE TEMPLES; CHINA; NATURAL CONVECTION FLOW PATTERN; YUNGANG GROTTOES;

AERODYNAMICS;

AIR; FLOW PATTERNS; NATURAL CONVECTION; WALLS;

AIR FLOW; CAVE TEMPLE; CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARTICULATE MATTER; TEMPERATURE;

CHINA, SHANXI PROVINCE, YUNGANG;

EID: 0030303021     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1352-2310(96)00123-9     Document Type: Article

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