Ventilation terminals for use with light pipes in buildings: A CFD study

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 18, 2000, Pages 1743-1752

  Varga, Szabolcs ^a   Oliveira, Armando C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PIPE FLOW;

LIGHT PIPES;

VENTILATION;

EID: 0034549817     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-4311(00)00005-3     Document Type: Article

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