Identification of contaminant sources in enclosed spaces by a single sensor

Indoor Air

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 439-449

  Zhang, T ^a   Chen, Q ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backward location probability; Computational fluid dynamics; Indoor environment; Inverse modeling; Pseudo reversibility equation; Quasi reversibility equation

Indexed keywords

AIR; CABINS (AIRCRAFT); COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTAMINATION; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

BACKWARD LOCATION PROBABILITY; CONTAMINANT SOURCES; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; INVERSE MODELLING; PSEUDO-REVERSIBILITY EQUATION; QUASI-REVERSIBILITY; QUASI-REVERSIBILITY EQUATION; QUASI-REVERSIBILITY METHODS; SOURCE STRENGTH; SOURCES LOCATION;

LOCATION;

EID: 36749008448     PISSN: 09056947     EISSN: 16000668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0668.2007.00489.x     Document Type: Article

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