Zonal modeling for simulating indoor environment of buildings: Review, recent developments, and applications

HVAC and R Research

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 887-905

  Megri, Ahmed Chérif ^a   Haghighat, Fariborz ^b  

^a ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; HEAT RADIATION; TEMPERATURE;

CONTAMINANTS DISTRIBUTIONS; HEAT BALANCE; MASS BALANCE; NODAL MODELS; THERMAL INTEGRATION; ZONAL MODELING;

VENTILATION;

EID: 36549038648     PISSN: 10789669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10789669.2007.10391461     Document Type: Article

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