Quality control of computational fluid dynamics in indoor environments

Indoor Air

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 2-17

  Sorensen D N ^a   Nielsen, P V ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Boundary conditions; CFD; Difference scheme; Quality control; Turbulence model

Indexed keywords

AIR; AIR QUALITY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ERRORS; QUALITY CONTROL; TURBULENCE MODELS;

AIR DISTRIBUTION; AIR MOVEMENT; COMPUTATIONAL GRIDS; DIFFERENCE SCHEMES; DIFFERENCING SCHEME; DISTRIBUTION OF TEMPERATURE; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; MODEL ERRORS; MODELING ASPECTS; NUMERICAL ERRORS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

AIR MONITORING; AMBIENT AIR; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HYDRODYNAMICS; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TURBULENT FLOW; AIR; FORECASTING; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AIR MOVEMENTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; FORECASTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUALITY CONTROL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0344676397     PISSN: 09056947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0668.2003.00170.x     Document Type: Article

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