Thermal performance of a personalized ventilation air terminal device at two different turbulence intensities

Building and Environment

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3974-3983

  Sun, Wei ^a   Tham, Kwok Wai ^a   Zhou, Wei ^b   Gong, Nan ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b ARUP   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Personalized ventilation; Thermal manikin; Thermal sensation; Tropics; Turbulence intensity

Indexed keywords

FLOW FIELDS; FLOW VELOCITY; HEAT TRANSFER; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY CONTROL;

AIR TERMINAL DEVICE; PERSONALIZED VENTILATION; THERMAL MANIKIN; THERMAL SENSATION; TURBULENCE INTENSITY;

VENTILATION;

FLOW FIELDS; FLOW VELOCITY; HEAT TRANSFER; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TURBULENCE; VELOCITY CONTROL; VENTILATION;

BODY TEMPERATURE; INDOOR AIR; TURBULENCE; VENTILATION;

EID: 34547956325     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2006.04.028     Document Type: Article

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