Modelling the dispersion of a toxic substance at a workplace

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 82-89

  Kassomenos, P ^a   Karayannis, A ^b   Panagopoulos, I ^b   Karakitsios, S ^a   Petrakis, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b SYBILLA Consulting Engineers Ltd   (Greece)

^c NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

CFD; Health risk; Indoor Air Quality; PHOENICS; PVC; VCM

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; CARCINOGENS; CHEMICAL PLANTS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; HEALTH RISKS; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; POLYVINYL CHLORIDES;

3-D NAVIER-STOKES; CFD CODE PHOENICS; INDOOR AIR QUALITY; INSTITUTIONAL LIMITS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SCALAR CONSERVATION EQUATIONS;

TOXIC MATERIALS;

AIR QUALITY; CARCINOGEN; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISPERSION; HEALTH RISK; INDOOR AIR; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SAFETY; STANDARD (REGULATION); TOXIC SUBSTANCE; VENTILATION; WORKPLACE;

EID: 34548473344     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2007.05.003     Document Type: Article

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