Migration of aerosol particles inside a two-zone apartment with natural ventilation: A multi-zone validation of the multi-compartment and size-resolved indoor aerosol model

Indoor and Built Environment

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 742-756

  Mølgaard, Bjarke ^a   Ondráček, Jakub ^b   Švová, Petra ^c   Džumbová, Lucie ^b   Barták, Martin ^d   Hussein, Tareq ^e   Smolík, Jiří ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PROCESS FUNDAMENTALS   (Czech Republic)

^c Czech Green Building Council   (Czech Republic)

^d CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^e UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Indoor to outdoor relationship; Penetration factor; Tracer gas; Ventilation rate; Well defined aerosols

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; TRACER;

AEROSOL; AIR TEMPERATURE; AIRFLOW; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; EVAPORATION; FRICTION; GAS ANALYSIS; HUMIDITY; PARTICLE SIZE; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84907200504     PISSN: 1420326X     EISSN: 14230070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1420326X13481484     Document Type: Article

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