CONTAM user guide and program documentation : version 3.2 / W. Stuart Dols; Brian J. Polidoro.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Dols, W. Stuart, author.

Contributor:

Dols, W. Stuart.

Polidoro, Brian J.

National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.). Engineering Laboratory.

Series:

NIST technical note ; 1887.

NIST technical note ; 1887

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer software.

Indoor air quality.

User guide.

Genre:

Technical reports.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (331 pages) : illustrations (color).

Place of Publication:

Gaithersburg, MD : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2015.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This manual describes the computer program CONTAM version 3.2, developed by NIST. CONTAM is a multizone indoor air quality and ventilation analysis program designed to help determine airflows, contaminant concentrations, and personal exposure in buildings. Airflows include infiltration, exfiltration, and room-to-room airflow rates and pressure differences in building systems, and can be driven by mechanical means, wind pressures acting on the exterior of the building, and buoyancy effects induced by temperature differences between zones, including the outdoors. Contaminant concentrations include the transport and fate of airborne contaminants, due to airflow, chemical and radio-chemical transformation, adsorption and desorption to building materials, filtration, and deposition to and resuspension from building surfaces. Personal exposure includes the exposure of building occupants to airborne contaminants, for eventual risk assessment.

Notes:

Contributed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes.

September 2015.

Title from PDF title page (viewed September 30, 2015).

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

958885888

Publisher Number:

GOVPUB-C13-4d0a5b2345b3401bd0cb35ca2c70240b

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access