Ventilation strategies and design impacts on indoor airborne transmission: A review

N Izadyar, W Miller - Building and environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 outbreak has brought the indoor airborne transmission issue to the forefront.
Although ventilation systems provide clean air and dilute indoor contaminated air, there is …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 impact on operation and energy consumption of heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems

W Zheng, J Hu, Z Wang, J Li, Z Fu, H Li, J Jurasz… - Advances in Applied …, 2021 - Elsevier
Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) system is favourable for regulating indoor
temperature, relative humidity, airflow pattern and air quality. However, HVAC systems may …

[HTML][HTML] Disease transmission through expiratory aerosols on an urban bus

Z Zhang, T Han, KH Yoo, J Capecelatro… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Airborne respiratory diseases such as COVID-19 pose significant challenges to public
transportation. Several recent outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2 indicate the high risk of …

HVAC systems for environmental control to minimize the COVID-19 infection

J Ding, CW Yu, SJ Cao - Indoor and Built Environment, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The outbreak of pneumonia caused by 2019 Novel Coronavirus arises significant concern
for virus transmission and control. The control of the indoor environment or public-enclosed …

Study on ventilation rates and assessment of infection risks of COVID-19 in an outpatient building

C Li, H Tang - Journal of Building Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
A modified Wells-Riley model combining the airborne route and close contact route was
proposed to predict the infection risks of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in main …

The role of computational fluid dynamics tools on investigation of pathogen transmission: Prevention and control

S Peng, Q Chen, E Liu - Science of The Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Transmission mechanics of infectious pathogen in various environments are of great
complexity and has always been attracting many researchers' attention. As a cost-effective …

The roles of transportation and transportation hubs in the propagation of influenza and coronaviruses: a systematic review

A Browne, S St-Onge Ahmad, CR Beck… - Journal of travel …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Background. Respiratory viruses spread in humans across wide geographical areas in short
periods of time, resulting in high levels of morbidity and mortality. We undertook a systematic …

A coupled Computational Fluid Dynamics and Wells-Riley model to predict COVID-19 infection probability for passengers on long-distance trains

Z Wang, ER Galea, A Grandison, J Ewer, F Jia - Safety science, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Coupled Wells-Riley (WR) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modelling
(WR-CFD) facilitates a detailed analysis of COVID-19 infection probability (IP). This …

A systematic review of the impacts of the coronavirus crisis on urban transport: Key lessons learned and prospects for future cities

RL Abduljabbar, S Liyanage, H Dia - Cities, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on the transport sector
worldwide. Lockdown and physical distancing requirements continue to be enforced in …

Dilution-based evaluation of airborne infection risk-Thorough expansion of Wells-Riley model

S Zhang, Z Lin - Building and Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Evaluation of airborne infection risk with spatial and temporal resolutions is
indispensable for the design of proper interventions fighting infectious respiratory diseases …