Improving the measurement of air change rates using the decay method: Quantifying the uncertainty of the well-mixed assumption and identifying the required sampling locations

Open Access

Issue		E3S Web Conf. Volume 672, 2025 The 17^th ROOMVENT Conference (ROOMVENT 2024)


Article Number		07038
Number of page(s)		6
Section		Poster Articles: Ventilation & Energy Efficiency, Modelling & Measuring
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202567207038
Published online		05 December 2025

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