A hybrid model for investigating transient particle transport in enclosed environments

Building and Environment

Volumn 62, Issue , 2013, Pages 45-54

  Chen, Chun ^a   Liu, Wei ^a,b   Li, Fei ^b   Lin, Chao Hsin ^c   Liu, Junjie ^b   Pei, Jingjing ^b   Chen, Qingyan ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aircraft cabin; Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD); Detached Eddy Simulation (DES); Eulerian drift flux model; Lagrangian model; Office

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW DATA; BREATHING ZONES; COMMERCIAL AIRLINER; COMPUTING COST; DETACHED EDDY SIMULATIONS; DRIFT-FLUX MODEL; HYBRID MODEL; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; LAGRANGIAN MODELS; MECHANICAL VENTILATION; OFFICE; PARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; PARTICLE SOURCE; PARTICLE TRANSPORT; TIME CONSTANTS;

CABINS (AIRCRAFT); COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COST REDUCTION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; VENTILATION;

PARTICLE SEPARATORS;

AIRCRAFT; AIRFLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYBRID; INDOOR AIR; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICULATE MATTER; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

EID: 84873271078     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2012.12.020     Document Type: Article

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