An adjustment to the standard temperature wall function for CFD modeling of indoor convective heat transfer

Building and Environment

Volumn 68, Issue , 2013, Pages 159-169

  Zhang, Tengfei ^a   Zhou, Hongbiao ^a   Wang, Shugang ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Adjustment; CFD; Convective heat transfer; Near wall modeling; Wall function

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER; CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; DISPLACEMENT VENTILATION; HEAT TRANSFER AND FLOWS; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; MIXING VENTILATION; NEAR-WALL MODELING;

HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; PRANDTL NUMBER; VENTILATION; WALL FUNCTION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONVECTION; HEAT TRANSFER; INDOOR AIR; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; WALL;

EID: 84880669337     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2013.06.009     Document Type: Article

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