Air management modeling of condensing units in a confined space and its impact on the chiller system performance

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2673-2677

  Shi, Yu Ling ^a   Yang, Liang ^b   Zhang, Chun Lu ^c  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shanghai Electric Power T and D Group   (China)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Air management; Air recirculation; CFD model; Confined space; System model

Indexed keywords

AIR; APARTMENT HOUSES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

AIR MANAGEMENT; AIR RE-CIRCULATION; CFD MODELING; CONFINED SPACE; SYSTEM MODELING;

COOLING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80054830460     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2011.06.023     Document Type: Article

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