Optimization of bathroom ventilation design for an iso class 5 clean ward

Building Simulation

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 133-142

  Yang, Caiqing ^a   Yang, Xudong ^a   Xu, Tengfang ^b   Sun, Luchun ^c   Gong, Wei ^c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Bathroom; Cfd; Clean ward; Contaminant control; Hospital; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863229421     PISSN: 19963599     EISSN: 19968744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/S12273-009-9310-1     Document Type: Article

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