Experimental parametric study of forced and mixed convection in a passenger aircraft cabin mock-up

Building and Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 961-970

  Kühn, Matthias ^a   Bosbach, Johannes ^a   Wagner, Claus ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cabin air flow; Large scale PIV; Temperature field measurements

Indexed keywords

AIR; AIRCRAFT; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; FLOW FIELDS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; JETS; MIXED CONVECTION; RATE CONSTANTS;

AIR EXCHANGE RATE (ACH); AIR INLETS; AIRCRAFT CABINS; BUOYANCY FORCING; CABIN AIR FLOW; FULL SCALE; LARGE SCALE PIV; PARTICLE-IMAGE VELOCIMETRY (PIV); PASSENGER AIRCRAFT; RELATIVE MASS; TEMPERATURE FIELD MEASUREMENTS;

CABINS (AIRCRAFT);

AIRCRAFT; AIRFLOW; COOLING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 58749106596     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2008.06.020     Document Type: Article

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