Comparison of turbulence modeling strategies for indoor flows

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 0514021-05140218

  Abdilghanie, Ammar M ^a   Collins, Lance R ^a   Caughey, David A ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT COEFFICIENTS; INDOOR AIR FLOW; INFLOW CONDITIONS; INLET CONDITIONS; INLET TURBULENCE LEVELS; INTERMITTENT FLOWS; LAMINAR FLOW CONDITIONS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION MODELS; LOW SPEED; MEAN FLOW; MEAN VELOCITIES; MODEL RESULTS; ROOM AIR; SPREADING RATE; SUBGRID SCALE; TURBULENCE INTENSITY; TURBULENCE LEVEL; TURBULENCE MODELING; TURBULENT JET; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; TURBULENT STATE; WITH INLETS;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; FLOW PATTERNS; FLOW SIMULATION; INTAKE SYSTEMS; KINETIC ENERGY; LAMINAR FLOW; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; TURBOMACHINERY; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

INLET FLOW;

EID: 75949102743     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: 1528901X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3112386     Document Type: Article

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