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The 12th AIVC Conference - Air movement and ventilation control within buildings, was held in Ottawa, Canada, 24-27 September 1991.

Contains 88 papers.  

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12th AIVC Conference "Air Movement and Ventilation Control within Buildings" (Book of Proceedings)

Vol1: Twenty eight papers from the twelventh AIVC Conference, titles as follows: “The Message of Annex 20: Air Flow Patterns within Buildings”; “Evaluation…

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Numerical prediction of ventilation system performance in an open office space

Numerical modeling is performed to predict airflow patterns, thermal comfort, and ventilation air distribution within an open office space. This…

Jin B. Fang.and Andrew Persily
Using thermofoil heaters for the experimental determination of the air flow patterns in a room.

A new simple method is proposed here for the experimental singling out of the air flow patterns in a room. It is based on the use of a series of thermofoil…

Cannistraro G, Giaconia C, Rizzo G
Modelling of airflows, temperatures and contaminant levels for localized ventilation systems.

Results of 3-D computational fluid dynamic simulations of the air flows, temperature distribution and contaminant remove efficiencies for typical…

Grot R
Hotwire/film anemometry for room air motion studies.

Application of hot wirelfilm ariemometry in room air flows presents difficulties because: (1) the effect of natural convection due to the heated wire…

Zhang J, Christianson L, Wu G
An integral mass balance formulation of the constant concentration tracer technique.

This paper extends the integral mass balance approach to the remaining constant concentration technique. An integral formulation of the constant…

Axley J
Numerical prediction of airflow patterns and ventilation effectiveness in an open office environment.

Numerical modelling is performed to predict air movement, thermal comfort level and contamination distribution within an open office space. The office…

Fang J, Persily A
Theoretical and experimental analysis of different ventilation strategies in a test room.

The paper presents an original computer code for the analysis of contaminant diffusion in rooms developed at the Politecnico di Torino and its experimental…

Cardinale N, Fracastoro G, Mantegna M, Nino E
A new approach for the numerical identification of interzonal airflows from tracer gas measurements.

This paper presents a new approach to determine the interzonal airflows of a multizone system using tracer gas measurements. In contrast to methods proposed…

Guitizad S, Jarausch H, Raatschen W
Modelling complex inlet geometries in CFD - applied to air flow in ventilated rooms.

Modern inlet devices applied in the field of ventilation of rooms are getting more complex in terms of geometry in order to fulfil the demand for thermal…

Skovgaard M, Nielsen P
The use of acoustic intensimetry to size air leakage cracks.

Reverberant sound excitation and the sound intensity technique have been used for the measurement of the sound transmission loss of narrow slits in rigid…

Oldham D, Zhao X, Sharples S, Kula H-G
Ventilation effectiveness - the AIVC guide.

Sandberg and Skaret differentiate between the terms air change efficiency and ventilation effectiveness. Air change efficiency is a measure of how…

Brouns C, Waters J
Numerical investigation of transient flow over a backward facing step using a low Reynolds number k-e model.

Recent full scale experiments has detected the presence of low Reynolds number effects in the flow in a ventilated room. This means that one are unable to…

Skovgaard M, Nielsen P
Integrated forced-air heating and ventilation systems: evaluation and design considerations.

Mechanical systems which use common ducts for combined heating and ventilating functions are becoming popular in the Pacific Northwest (U.S.). These systems…

Jackson M
Investigation of a combined ventilation and heating system for residential buildings.

Combined ventilation and heating systems in floors demand extensive investigations about the heat transfer before they could be installed in residential…

Steimle F, Mengede B, Roben J
Modelling of a supply air terminal for room air flow simulation.

The paper discusses methods to set boundary conditions at the air supply opening in predictions of room air flows with computational fluid dynamics. The…

Heikkinen J
Advanced ventilation systems.

As part of the AIVC's technical programme, study has been performed on present and advanced ventilation systems. The first part of the study presents a…

Knoll B
Thermal coupling of leakage air flows and heating load in building components and buildings.

Simulation models basing on 2-dimensional finite-difference approach were developed for the steady-state and dynamic analyses of the thermal coupling of…

Virtanen M
Definition of the flow parameters at the room inlet device - measurements and calculations.

Due to the limitations of computer storage and time the flow boundary conditions at an air inlet device have to be specified for numerical simulations of…

Ewert M, Renz U, Vogel N, Zeller M
Experimental investigation of convective couplings across various doorways under horizontal temperature gradients.

Inter-zone convection affects the general movements of air in a building and must be evaluated for accurate thermal zones heat and mass balance. The paper…

Baranowski A, Wasacz M, Eppe J
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