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] A review on applications of CFD modeling in COVID-19 pandemic

F Mohamadi, A Fazeli - Archives of Computational Methods in …, 2022 - Springer
COVID-19 pandemic has started a big challenge to the world health and economy during
recent years. Many efforts were made to use the computation fluid dynamic (CFD) approach …

[HTML][HTML] A review on indoor airborne transmission of COVID-19–modelling and mitigation approaches

S Rayegan, C Shu, J Berquist, J Jeon, LG Zhou… - Journal of Building …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the past few years, significant efforts have been made to investigate the transmission of
COVID-19. This paper provides a review of the COVID-19 airborne transmission modeling …

[HTML][HTML] Airborne and aerosol pathogen transmission modeling of respiratory events in buildings: An overview of computational fluid dynamics

Y Sheikhnejad, R Aghamolaei, M Fallahpour… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Pathogen droplets released from respiratory events are the primary means of dispersion and
transmission of the recent pandemic of COVID-19. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has …

Ventilation Strategies for Mitigating Airborne Infection in Healthcare Facilities: A Review and Bibliometric Analysis (1993 to 2022)

HY Kek, SBM Saupi, H Tan, MHD Othman… - Energy and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The prevalence and transmission of airborne infections pose significant challenges to public
health, leading to consequential negative impacts. Ventilation strategies are crucial in …

Air Disinfection for Airborne Infection Control with a Focus on COVID‐19: Why Germicidal UV is Essential

EA Nardell - Photochemistry and Photobiology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aerosol transmission is now widely accepted as the principal way that COVID‐19 is spread,
as has the importance of ventilation—natural and mechanical. But in other than healthcare …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning design features on the transmission of viruses, including the 2019 novel coronavirus: A systematic …

GM Thornton, BA Fleck, N Fleck, E Kroeker… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Respiratory viruses are capable of transmitting via an aerosol route. Emerging evidence
suggests that SARS-CoV-2 which causes COVID-19 can be spread through airborne …

Influence of office furniture on exposure risk to respiratory infection under mixing and displacement air distribution systems

IH Hatif, HM Kamar, N Kamsah, KY Wong… - Building and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The furniture layout between two people complicates the interaction between indoor airflow,
human thermal plume, and exhalation flow in the breathing microenvironment. It thus …

Minimizing the respiratory pathogen transmission: Numerical study and multi-objective optimization of ventilation systems in a classroom

H Arjmandi, R Amini, M Fallahpour - Thermal Science and Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Schools are recognized as high-risk spaces in airborne infectious disease transmission due
to occupant density and activity level. Therefore, it is critical to conduct studies and provide …

Removal of SARS-CoV-2 bioaerosols using ultraviolet air filtration

RE Barnewall, WE Bischoff - Infection Control & Hospital …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Engineering controls play an important role in reducing the spread of severe acute
respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). 1 Established technologies such as air …