CFD study of the thermal environment in an air-conditioned train station building

Building and Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1452-1465

  Li, Qiong ^a,b   Yoshino, Hiroshi ^b   Mochida, Akashi ^b   Lei, Bo ^c   Meng, Qinglin ^a   Zhao, Lihua ^a   Lun, Yufat ^b  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Air distribution; Air conditioning; CFD; Thermal environment; Train station building

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUILDINGS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COOLING; COOLING SYSTEMS; DESIGN; FLUID DYNAMICS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; LOCOMOTIVES; RAILROAD CARS; RAILROAD STATIONS; THERMAL COMFORT; VEHICULAR TUNNELS;

AIR DISTRIBUTION; AIR-CONDITIONING DESIGNS; AIR-CONDITIONING SYSTEMS; ANGLE OF INCIDENCES; BUILDING ENVIRONMENTS; CFD; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS METHODS; COOLING AIRS; COOLING LOADS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; SUPPLY AIR TEMPERATURES; THERMAL ENVIRONMENT; TRAIN STATION BUILDING; WAITING HALLS;

AIR;

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR TEMPERATURE; BUILDING; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 61349111378     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2008.08.010     Document Type: Article

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