Real-time or faster-than-real-time simulation of airflow in buildings

Indoor Air

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 33-44

  Zuo, W ^a   Chen, Q ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air distribution; Computational fluid dynamics; Contaminant dispersion; Fast fluid dynamics; Real time

Indexed keywords

AIR; FLOW SIMULATION; IMPURITIES; NUMERICAL METHODS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

AIR DISTRIBUTION; CONTAMINANT DISPERSION; DYNAMIC METHOD; FAST FLUID DYNAMICS; FLOW INFORMATIONS; IN-BUILDINGS; NODAL MODELS; REAL- TIME; REALTIME FLOWS; REALTIME SIMULATION (RTS);

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 58449124396     PISSN: 09056947     EISSN: 16000668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0668.2008.00559.x     Document Type: Article

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