Evaluating emergency ventilation strategies under different contaminant source locations and evacuation modes by efficiency factor of contaminant source (EFCS)

Building and Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 485-497

  Cai, Hao ^a,b   Long, Weiding ^c   Li, Xianting ^a   Barker, Douglas ^d  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PLA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Air distribution; Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Emergency ventilation; Evacuation model; Ventilation strategy

Indexed keywords

AIR DISTRIBUTION; CONTAMINANT SOURCES; EFFICIENCY FACTOR; EMERGENCY VENTILATION; EMERGENCY VENTILATION STRATEGIES; EVACUATION MODEL; HAZARDOUS CONTAMINANTS; NEW CONCEPT; NONUNIFORM; SOURCE LOCATION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TIME-DEPENDENT; VENTILATION MODE; VENTILATION STRATEGY;

AIR; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTAMINATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; NEONATAL MONITORING;

VENTILATION;

AIRFLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; HAZARDOUS WASTE; INDOOR AIR; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLLUTANT SOURCE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; VENTILATION;

EID: 70350183776     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2009.07.005     Document Type: Article

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