A two-layer turbulence model for simulating indoor airflow - Part II. Applications

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 627-639

  Xu, Weiran ^a   Chen, Qingyan ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Indoor airflow; Two layer turbulence model

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL CONVECTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SPACE HEATING; TURBULENCE;

INDOOR AIRFLOW;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 0035400562     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-7788(00)00130-4     Document Type: Article

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