Total air age in the room ventilated by multiple air-handling units: Part 1. An algorithm

ASHRAE Transactions

Volumn 109 PART 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 829-836

  Li, Dongning ^a   Li, Xianting ^a   Yang, Xudong ^b   Dou, Chunpeng ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; VENTILATION;

AIR AGE DISTRIBUTION; INDOOR AIR QUALITY; MULTIPLE AIR HANDLING UNITS; TOTAL AIR AGE;

AIR CONDITIONING;

EID: 17144433704     PISSN: 00012505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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