Inverse design methods for indoor ventilation systems using CFD-based multi-objective genetic algorithm

Building Simulation

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 661-669

  Zhai, Zhiqiang John ^a,b   Xue, Yu ^a   Chen, Qingyan ^a,c  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

age of air; computational fluid dynamics; inverse modeling; multi objective genetic algorithm; percent dissatisfied; predicted mean vote

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906322778     PISSN: 19963599     EISSN: 19968744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12273-014-0179-2     Document Type: Article

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