Transmission and infection risk of COVID-19 when people coughing in an elevator

S Liu, Z Deng - Building and environment, 2023 - Elsevier
People in cities use elevators daily. With the COVID-19 pandemic, there are more worries
about elevator safety, since elevators are often small and crowded. This study used a proven …

Ventilation strategies and air quality management in passenger aircraft cabins: A review of experimental approaches and numerical simulations

HA Elmaghraby, YW Chiang… - Science and Technology …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The cabins of passenger aircraft experience one of the most complex indoor environments
among all other means of mass public transportation. Given the large number of passengers …

Evaluation of airborne particle exposure for riding elevators

S Liu, X Zhao, SR Nichols, MW Bonilha… - Building and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Social distancing is a key factor for health during the COVID-19 pandemic. In many indoor
spaces, such as elevators, it is difficult to maintain social distancing. This investigation used …

Evaluation of cough-jet effects on the transport characteristics of respiratory-induced contaminants in airline passengers' local environments

Y Yan, X Li, L Yang, P Yan, J Tu - Building and environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Urgent demands of assessing respiratory disease transmission in airliner cabins had
awakened from the COVID-19 pandemics. This study numerically investigated the cough …

Comparison of STAR-CCM+ and ANSYS Fluent for simulating indoor airflows

Y Zou, X Zhao, Q Chen - Building simulation, 2018 - Springer
Suitable air distributions are essential for creating thermally comfortable and healthy
conditions in indoor spaces. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is widely used to predict …

Mesh type and number for the CFD simulations of air distribution in an aircraft cabin

R Duan, W Liu, L Xu, Y Huang, X Shen… - … heat transfer, part B …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
This investigation evaluated the impact of three mesh types (hexahedral, tetrahedral, and
hybrid cells) and five grid numbers (3, 6, 12, 24, and> 38 million cells) on the accuracy and …

Experimental study of the impact of passenger behavior on the aircraft cabin environment

Y Zhang, J Li, J Liu - Science and Technology for the Built …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
An aircraft cabin environment is affected by many factors during flights. To investigate the
impact of passenger behavior on indoor air quality, three passenger behaviors, adjusting the …

Airplane cabin mixing ventilation with time‐periodic supply: Contaminant mass fluxes and ventilation efficiency

JH Thysen, T van Hooff, B Blocken, GJ van Heijst - Indoor air, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Airplane cabin ventilation is essential to ensure passengers' well‐being. The conventional
ventilation method is mixing ventilation with a statistically steady supply, which, according to …

Numerical investigation of droplets in a cross-ventilated space with sitting passengers under asymptomatic virus transmission conditions

C Peña-Monferrer, S Antao, R Manson-Sawko - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Asymptomatic virus transmission in public transportation is a complex process that is difficult
to analyze computationally and experimentally. We present a high-resolution computational …

[PDF][PDF] A Review on Effects of Personalized Ventilation Systems on Air Quality and Thermal Comfort in Aircraft Cabin Mini⁃ Environments.

SUN Jianhong, CA Mboreha, W Yan… - Transactions of Nan**g …, 2022 - researchgate.net
This study conducts an evaluation of air quality, dispersion of airborne expiratory pollutants
and thermal comfort in aircraft cabin mini-environments using a critical examination of …