State-of-the-art methods for studying air distributions in commercial airliner cabins

Building and Environment

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 5-12

  Liu, Wei ^a   Mazumdar, Sagnik ^b   Zhang, Zhao ^b   Poussou, Stephane B ^b   Liu, Junjie ^a   Lin, Chao Hsin ^c   Chen, Qingyan ^a,b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aircraft cabin; Airflow; CFD; Experiment; Numerical simulations

Indexed keywords

AIR DISTRIBUTION; AIRFLOW; CFD MODELS; COMMERCIAL AIRLINER; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FULL SCALE TESTS; HIGH QUALITY; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS;

AIRCRAFT MODELS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

CABINS (AIRCRAFT);

AIRFLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW MODELING; INDOOR AIR;

EID: 80052818033     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2011.07.005     Document Type: Article

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