Study on inhalation region by means of CFD analysis and experiment

Building and Environment

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1329-1336

  Zhu, Shengwei ^a   Kato, Shinsuke ^a   Murakami, Shuzo ^b   Hayashi, Tatsuya ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Nikken Sekkei Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Experimental thermal manikin; Flame ionized detector (FID); Inhalation region; Low Reynolds number k E model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

AIR-VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION; FLAME IONIZED DETECTORS (FID); INHALATION; THERMAL MANIKIN;

RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 21644475946     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2004.11.009     Document Type: Article

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