Implementing state-space methods for multizone contaminant transport

Building and Environment

Volumn 71, Issue , 2014, Pages 131-139

  Parker, Simon T ^a   Lorenzetti, David M ^b   Sohn, Michael D ^b  

^a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ^*

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Concentration solution; Eigenvalue; Indoor dispersion; Multizone models; Numerical methods; State space

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; EIGEN-VALUE; EIGENVALUE DECOMPOSITION; MATRIX EXPONENTIALS; MULTI-ZONE MODELS; NUMERICAL ESTIMATION; REAL-TIME FORECASTING; STATE SPACE APPROACH;

NUMERICAL METHODS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; STATE SPACE METHODS;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

AIR QUALITY; AIRFLOW; ALGORITHM; EIGENVALUE; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; INDOOR AIR; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; REAL TIME; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84886245492     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2013.09.021     Document Type: Article

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