How realistic is CFD as a tool for indoor environment design and studies without experiment

Proceedings of the 2003 4th International Symposium on Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 62-77

  Chen, Qingyan ^a,b   Zhai, Zhiqiang ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Colorado   (United States)

Author keywords

Air distribution; Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD); Experimental validation; Indoor environment

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VENTILATION;

AIR DISTRIBUTION; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL GRID RESOLUTION;

INDOOR AIR POLLUTION;

EID: 4444345271     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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