A comprehensive review on mitigating the risk of airborne particles using add-on systems

IJ Al-Rikabi, H Alsaad, P Nejat, C Voelker - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Inadequate indoor ventilation can lead to microbial contamination in enclosed spaces,
necessitating improvements in indoor air quality (IAQ). To address this,'add-on systems' can …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 transmission and control in land public transport: A literature review

Q Luo, W Liu, J Liao, Z Gu, X Fan, Z Luo, X Zhang… - Fundamental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Land public transport is an important link within and between cities, and how to control the
transmission of COVID-19 in land public transport is a critical issue in our daily lives …

Influence of natural ventilation design on the dispersion of pathogen-laden droplets in a coach bus

Q Luo, X Yang, J Hang, X Fan, Z Luo, Z Gu… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Natural ventilation is an energy-efficient design approach to reduce infection risk (IR), but its
optimized design in a coach bus environment is less studied. Based on a COVID-19 …

Numerical investigation of airborne infection risk in an elevator cabin under different ventilation designs

A Nazari, C Wang, R He, F Taghizadeh-Hesary… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 via virus-laden aerosols in enclosed spaces poses a
significant concern. Elevators, commonly utilized enclosed spaces in modern tall buildings …

Numerical study of the effect of composition models on cough droplet propagation distributions in confined space

T Wang, F Shi, F Shi, C Li, L Zhang, J Wang… - Building and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The compositional models currently used for cough droplet transport and dispersion
simulations typically consider water and inorganic salts, ignoring the organics in the …

A novel approach to preventing SARS-CoV-2 transmission in classrooms: A numerical study

A Pal, R Biswas, R Pal, S Sarkar, A Mukhopadhyay - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The education sector has suffered a catastrophic setback due to the ongoing COVID
pandemic, with classrooms being closed indefinitely. The current study aims to solve the …

Characteristics of collection and inactivation of virus in air flowing inside a winding conduit equipped with 280 nm deep UV-LEDs

K Takamure, Y Sakamoto, Y Iwatani, H Amano… - Environment …, 2022 - Elsevier
A general-purpose virus inactivation unit that can inactivate viruses was developed using
deep ultraviolet (DUV) LEDs that emit DUV rays with a wavelength of 280 nm. The inside of …

Influence of cough airflow characteristics on respiratory mucus clearance

S Ren, M Cai, Y Shi, Z Luo, T Wang - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
A cough is a respiratory reflex for respiratory mucus clearance. The cough airflow dynamics
can be characterized by three parameters, which are cough peak flow rate (CPFR), peak …

Risk assessment of respiratory droplet infections caused by coughing in various indoor dynamic environments

K Li, L Kang, K Guo, L Song, X Zhang, W Xu - Journal of Building …, 2023 - Elsevier
Since most respiratory infections occur in confined spaces, it is necessary to further
investigate the effect of wake caused by human movement on droplet dispersion. This paper …

The effect of relative air humidity on the evaporation timescales of a human sneeze

B Stiehl, R Shrestha, S Schroeder, J Delgado, A Bazzi… - AIP advances, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The present paper investigates droplet and aerosol emission from the human respiratory
function by numerical and experimental methods, which is analyzed at the worst-case …