Floor-supply displacement ventilation in a small office

Indoor and Built Environment

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 281-291

  Kobayashi, Nobukazu ^a   Chen, Qingyan ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Displacement ventilation; Experimental measurements; Floor supply; Indoor air quality; Thermal comfort

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; BUILDING; CONFERENCE PAPER; DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENT; FLUID FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0041967303     PISSN: 1420326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1420326X03035918     Document Type: Conference Paper

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