Simulating smoke filling in big halls by computational fluid dynamics

Modelling and Simulation in Engineering

Volumn 2011, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Chow, W K ^a   Chow, C L ^a   Li, S S ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; SMOKE;

CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS; CONVERGENCE CRITERION; FREE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MATHEMATICAL ASPECTS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; RELAXATION FACTORS; SMOKE EXHAUST SYSTEMS; VELOCITY-PRESSURE;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 79953743560     PISSN: 16875591     EISSN: 16875605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2011/781252     Document Type: Article

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