An integrated zonal model for predicting indoor airflow, temperature, and VOC distributions

ASHRAE Transactions

Volumn 111 PART 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 601-611

  Huang, Hongyu ^b   Haghighat, Fariborz ^a,b   Lee, Chang Seo ^c  

^a ASHRAE ^*

^b Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDOOR AIRFLOW; INTEGRATED ZONAL MODEL (IZM); THREE-DIMENSIONAL AIRFLOW;

AIR; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; NATURAL CONVECTION; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 27644440860     PISSN: 00012505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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