Modelling flow and heat transfer around a seated human body by computational fluid dynamics

Building and Environment

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 753-762

  Sørensen, Dan Nørtoft ^a   Voigt, Lars Køllgaard ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

CFD; Human body; Natural convection; Radiation; Thermal manikin

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; HUMAN FORM MODELS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

THERMAL MANIKINS;

HEAT CONVECTION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONVECTION; FLOW MODELING; HEAT TRANSFER; RADIATION;

EID: 0038344833     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-1323(03)00027-1     Document Type: Article

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