Transport of gaseous pollutants by convective boundary layer around a human body

Science and Technology for the Built Environment

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1175-1186

  Licina, Dusan ^a,b   Melikov, Arsen ^b   Sekhar, Chandra ^a   Tham, Kwok Wai ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

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EID: 84964039154     PISSN: 23744731     EISSN: 2374474X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/23744731.2015.1060111     Document Type: Article

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