Study of indoor radon distribution using measurements and CFD modeling

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity - Tập 136 - Trang 105-111 - 2014
Neetika Chauhan1, R. P. Chauhan2, Manish Joshi3, Tarun Kumar Agarwal3, Praveen Aggarwal4, Bijay Kumar Sahoo3
1Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra 136119, India. Electronic address: [email protected].
2Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra 136119, India
3Radiological Physics and Advisory Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, 400 085, India
4Department of Civil Engineering National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra 136119, India

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