Evaluation of manikin simplification methods for CFD simulations in occupied indoor environments

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 127, Issue , 2016, Pages 611-626

  Yan, Yihuan ^a,b   Li, Xiangdong ^a   Yang, Lin ^a   Tu, Jiyuan ^a,b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CFD; Computational thermal manikin; Microclimate; Simplification; Thermal plume

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; FORECASTING; IMPURITIES; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; THERMAL PLUMES;

COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; COMPUTATIONAL THERMAL MANIKIN; CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; MICROCLIMATE; PREDICTIVE ERROR; SIMPLIFICATION; SIMPLIFICATION METHOD;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 84975453823     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2016.06.030     Document Type: Review

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