Time lags in a two-zone air movement model
- 1 May 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Building Services Engineering Research and Technology
- Vol. 8 (2) , 43-46
- https://doi.org/10.1177/014362448700800205
Abstract
Multi-zone models of air movement in buildings usually assume that there is no time lag in the flows between zones. Nevertheless, such time lags could have a significant effect on the pattern of contaminant distribution throughout a building. This note shows how such effects can be evaluated by examining theoretically a two-zone model with time lags. The results have implications for the interpretation of tracer decay measurements.Keywords
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