Towards an integrated computational method to determine internal spaces for optimum environmental conditions

Computers and Fluids

Volumn 127, Issue , 2016, Pages 146-160

  Sofotasiou, Polytimi ^a   Calautit, John Kaiser ^a   Hughes, Ben Richard ^a   O'Connor, Dominic ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Natural ventilation; Optimization; Response Surface Methodology (RSM)

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; FLUID DYNAMICS; OPTIMIZATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VENTILATION; WIND TUNNELS;

CENTRAL COMPOSITE DESIGNS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; NATURAL VENTILATION; NATURALLY VENTILATED BUILDINGS; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY; VENTILATION EFFICIENCY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 84954432428     PISSN: 00457930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2015.12.015     Document Type: Article

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