Total air age: An extension of the air age concept

Building and Environment

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1263-1269

  Li, Xianting ^a   Li, Dongning ^a   Yang, Xudong ^b   Yang, Jianrong ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

CFD; Indoor air quality; Total air age; Tracer gas

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ITERATIVE METHODS; VENTILATION;

AIR AGE;

AIR QUALITY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; INDOOR AIR QUALITY; RESIDENCE TIME; TRACER; VENTILATION;

EID: 0043065390     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-1323(03)00133-1     Document Type: Article

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