Assessing ventilation system performance in isolation rooms

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 246-252

  Balocco, Carla ^a   Lio, Pietro ^b  

^a Department of Energy Engineering Sergio Stecco ^*  (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CFD; HVAC system; Isolation rooms; Particle tracing; Transient simulation; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

CFD; HVAC SYSTEM; ISOLATION ROOMS; PARTICLE TRACING; TRANSIENT SIMULATION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DESIGN; DISEASE CONTROL; HOSPITALS; INLET FLOW; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VENTILATION; VIRUSES;

AIR CONDITIONING;

EID: 78049479745     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2010.09.020     Document Type: Article

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