Annual hourly CFD simulation: New approach-An efficient scheduling algorithm for fast iteration convergence

Building Simulation

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 401-415

  Wang, Yue ^a   Malkawi, Ali ^b  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^b HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

annual hourly simulation; fast CFD iteration convergence; strategy planning algorithm; year round building CFD simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898714359     PISSN: 19963599     EISSN: 19968744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12273-013-0156-1     Document Type: Article

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