Floor heating with displacement ventilation: An experimental and numerical analysis

HVAC and R Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 139-160

  Causone, Francesco ^a   Olesen, Bjarne W ^b   Corgnati, Stefano P ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTAMINATION; FLOORS; FLOW PATTERNS; IMPURITIES; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; NUMERICAL MODELS;

CONTAMINANT SOURCES; DISPLACEMENT VENTILATION; EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; INDOOR AIR QUALITY; STRATIFIED FLOW PATTERNS; THERMAL INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS; VENTILATION EFFECTIVENESS; VENTILATION FLOW;

VENTILATION;

EID: 77950307401     PISSN: 10789669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10789669.2010.10390898     Document Type: Article

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