Comparing zonal and CFD model predictions of isothermal indoor airflows to experimental data

Indoor Air

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 77-85

  Mora, L ^a,b   Gadgil, A J ^a   Wurtz, E ^b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Airflow; Computational fluid dynamics; Indoor air; Simulation; Zonal

Indexed keywords

AIR; FORECASTING; ISOTHERMS;

AIRFLOW; COARSE GRID; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS MODELING; INDOOR AIR; INDOOR SPACE; INFILTRATION MODELS; MODEL PREDICTION; SIMULATION; ZONAL; ZONAL METHOD;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

ACCURACY; AIR CONDITIONING; AIRFLOW; AMBIENT AIR; ANALYTIC METHOD; BUILDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; FLOW KINETICS; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; AIR; AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; STANDARD;

AIR MOVEMENTS; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; VENTILATION;

EID: 0042887652     PISSN: 09056947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0668.2003.00160.x     Document Type: Article

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