On the assessment of ventilation performance with the aid of numerical simulations

Building and Environment

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 497-508

  Peng, Shia Hui ^a,b   Holmberg, Sture ^a   Davidson, Lars ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKING LIFE   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; AIR POLLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; DISPERSIONS; IMPURITIES; PERFORMANCE;

LOCAL PURGING EFFECTIVENESS; LOCAL SPECIFIC CONTAMINANT ACCUMULATING INDEX;

VENTILATION;

EID: 0031276850     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-1323(97)00023-1     Document Type: Article

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