Towards the application of indoor ventilation efficiency indices to evaluate the air quality of urban areas

Building and Environment

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1991-2004

  Bady, Mahmoud ^a   Kato, Shinsuke ^b   Huang, Hong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Air quality; CFD; Urban domains; Ventilation efficiency

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; BUILDINGS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; POLLUTION; REGIONAL PLANNING; ROADS AND STREETS; VENTILATION;

AIR FLOW RATES; BUILDING MODELLING; CFD; CFD SIMULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; FLOW-RATE; INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; OUTDOOR AIR; QUALITY ASSESSMENTS; RESIDENCE TIME; URBAN AREAS; URBAN DOMAINS; URBAN STREETS; VENTILATION EFFICIENCY; VENTILATION PERFORMANCE;

QUALITY CONTROL;

AIR QUALITY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; INDEX METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; URBAN AREA; VENTILATION;

EID: 49149110000     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2007.11.013     Document Type: Article

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