Response coefficient: A new concept to evaluate ventilation performance with ''pulse'' boundary conditions

Indoor and Built Environment

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 189-204

  Li, Xianting ^a   Zhu, Fenfei ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Air distribution; Evaluation index; Indoor air quality (IAQ); Passive contaminant; Ventilation efficiency

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; AIRFLOW; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM VENTILATION;

EID: 67649211315     PISSN: 1420326X     EISSN: 14230070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1420326X09104345     Document Type: Article

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