A Vallée - Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The COVID-19 pandemic showed major impacts, on societies worldwide, challenging healthcare systems, economies, and daily life of people. Geoepidemiology, an emerging …
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 …
Z He, X Zhao, Y Yin, X Chen - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
Nowadays, an indoor environment is created by heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, and cooling (HVAC) systems that meet the cooling needs of occupants in summer, however …
W Liu, TT Zhang, D Lai - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
A thermally comfortable indoor environment is critical for ensuring the health and productivity of the occupants. To design a thermally comfortable environment, CFD-based …
X Zhao, Y Yin, S Zhang, G Xu - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
Accurate prediction of energy consumption is the theoretical basis to achieve the low-carbon operation and maintenance of building HVAC systems. Existing studies either use only …
J Wang, H Yu, N Fu, Z Feng, C Li - Energy and Buildings, 2023 - Elsevier
Airborne transmission of respiratory infectious diseases has brought severe impacts to the enclosed environment, eg, elevator cabins. According to statistics, there are over 2 billion …
Airborne viruses can be transmitted from infected person to healthy one through small respiratory droplets. Comprehensive information on the dispersion pattern of saliva droplets …
Z Gu, J Han, L Zhang, H Wang, X Luo, X Meng… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Policies and measures to control pandemics are often failing. While biological factors controlling transmission are usually well explored, little is known about the environmental …
The furniture layout between two people complicates the interaction between indoor airflow, human thermal plume, and exhalation flow in the breathing microenvironment. It thus …