On-site experimental validation of a coupled multizone and CFD model for building contaminant transport simulations

ASHRAE Transactions

Volumn 114 PART 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 273-281

  Srebric, Jelena ^a   Yuan, J ^b   Novoselac, Atila ^c  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR FLOWRATES; CALCULATION SPEEDS; CFD (COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS); CFD MODELS; COMPUTATION TIMES; COMPUTATIONAL TIMES; CONTAMINANT CONCENTRATIONS; CONTAMINANT DISTRIBUTIONS; CONTAMINANT SOURCES; CONTAMINANT TRANSPORTS; COUPLED MODELS; COUPLING METHODS; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; FIELD EXPERIMENTS; MULTIZONE MODELS; NUMERICAL VALIDATIONS; OFFICE SPACES; VALIDATION METHODS;

AIR CONDITIONING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; FLUID DYNAMICS; HEATING; OFFICE BUILDINGS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; REFRIGERATION; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS;

CONTAMINATION;

EID: 55849123641     PISSN: 00012505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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