Walking-induced particle resuspension in indoor environments

J Qian, J Peccia, AR Ferro - Atmospheric Environment, 2014 - Elsevier
Resuspension of particles indoors increases the risk of consequent exposure through
inhalation and non-dietary ingestion. Studies have been conducted to characterize indoor …

Sniffers: Fluid-Dynamic Sampling for Olfactory Trace Detection in Nature and Homeland Security— The 2004 Freeman Scholar Lecture

GS Settles - 2005 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Vertebrates aim their noses at regions of interest and sniff in order to acquire olfactory trace
signals that carry information on food, reproduction, kinship, danger, etc. Invertebrates …

Airborne nanoparticle exposures associated with the manual handling of nanoalumina and nanosilver in fume hoods

SJ Tsai, E Ada, JA Isaacs, MJ Ellenbecker - Journal of Nanoparticle …, 2009 - Springer
Manual handling of nanoparticles is a fundamental task of most nanomaterial research; such
handling may expose workers to ultrafine or nanoparticles. Recent studies confirm that …

Dynamic meshing modelling for particle resuspension caused by swinging manikin motion

Y Tao, K Inthavong, JY Tu - Building and Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
Human-induced wake flow characteristics and its impact on particle re-dispersion from the
floor was investigated by performing CFD simulations of a moving thermal manikin model …

[HTML][HTML] Resuspension of inhalable particles from clothing: A manikin-based chamber study

HY Jhang, S Yang, D Licina - Building and Environment, 2025 - Elsevier
Clothing plays a significant role in facilitating inhalation exposure to particulate matter (PM).
Nevertheless, there is a lack of studies investigating PM resuspension from clothing. This …

Conceptual model for assessment of inhalation exposure: defining modifying factors

E Tielemans, T Schneider, H Goede… - Annals of …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
The present paper proposes a source–receptor model to schematically describe inhalation
exposure to help understand the complex processes leading to inhalation of hazardous …

Bacterial diversity characterization of bioaerosols from cage-housed and floor-housed poultry operations

N Just, S Kirychuk, Y Gilbert, V Létourneau… - Environmental …, 2011 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Although bioaerosols from both cage-housed (CH) and floor-housed (FH)
poultry operations are highly concentrated, workers from CH operations have reported a …

Numerical study of spread of coughing droplets by human walking and indoor wind environment

K Li, W Xu, L Song, X Zhang, C Zhang, J Hua - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Indoor ventilation and human movement are important factors affecting the spread of
droplets. In this paper, the effects of indoor wind speed and human movement on the …

Computational fluid dynamics study of human-induced wake and particle dispersion in indoor environment

Y Tao, K Inthavong, J Tu - Indoor and Built Environment, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The impact of human-induced wake flow and particle re-dispersion from floors in an indoor
environment was investigated by performing computational fluid dynamics simulations with …

Airborne nanoparticle exposures while using constant-flow, constant-velocity, and air-curtain-isolated fume hoods

SJ Tsai, RF Huang… - Annals of occupational …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Tsai et al.(Airborne nanoparticle exposures associated with the manual handling of
nanoalumina and nanosilver in fume hoods. J Nanopart Res 2009; 11: 147–61) found that …