Effect of indoor temperature on the velocity fields and airborne transmission of sneeze droplets: An experimental study and transient CFD modeling

A Bahramian, M Mohammadi, G Ahmadi - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic through the airborne transmission of coronavirus-
containing droplets emitted during coughing, sneezing, and speaking has now been well …

Mechanisms controlling the transport and evaporation of human exhaled respiratory droplets containing the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus: a review

LK Norvihoho, J Yin, ZF Zhou, J Han, B Chen… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Transmission of the coronavirus disease 2019 is still ongoing despite mass vaccination,
lockdowns, and other drastic measures to control the pandemic. This is due partly to our lack …

Dispersion of expectorated cough droplets with seasonal influenza in an office

LK Norvihoho, H Li, ZF Zhou, J Yin, SY Chen… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We do not fully grasp viral droplet transmission processes in ventilated interior
environments. The core focus of our research is to investigate the effectiveness of the …

Investigation of theoretical scaling laws using large eddy simulations for airborne spreading of viral contagion from sneezing and coughing

K Liu, M Allahyari, J Salinas, N Zgheib… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Using a set of large eddy point-particle simulations, we explore the fluid dynamics of an
ejected puff resulting from a cough/sneeze. The ejection contains over 61 000 potentially …

[HTML][HTML] Fluid mechanics of air recycling and filtration for indoor airborne transmission

KA Krishnaprasad, JS Salinas, N Zgheib… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We present a statistical framework to account for effects of recycling and filtration in
ventilation systems for the estimation of airborne droplet nuclei concentration in indoor …

Investigation on the evaporation and dispersion of human respiratory droplets with COVID-19 virus

J Yin, LK Norvihoho, ZF Zhou, B Chen… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract On March 11, 2020, COVID-19 was declared as a pandemic by World Health
Organization (WHO). Effective prevention is indispensable for defeating the ongoing COVID …

[HTML][HTML] Towards realistic simulations of human cough: effect of droplet emission duration and spread angle

M Li, KL Chong, CS Ng, P Bahl, CM de Silva… - International journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Human respiratory events, such as coughing and sneezing, play an important role in the
host-to-host airborne transmission of diseases. Thus, there has been a substantial effort in …

Improved guidelines of indoor airborne transmission taking into account departure from the well-mixed assumption

JS Salinas, KA Krishnaprasad, N Zgheib… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
The well-mixed assumption has been widely used in predicting the spread of infectious
diseases in indoor spaces. It is to be expected that a perfect well-mixed state will not be …

[HTML][HTML] Large eddy simulation of cough jet dynamics, droplet transport, and inhalability over a ten minute exposure

H Calmet, K Inthavong, A Both, A Surapaneni… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
High fidelity simulations of expiratory events such as coughing provide the opportunity to
predict the fate of the droplets from the turbulent jet cloud produced from a cough. It is well …

Effect of sneeze flow velocity profiles on the respiratory droplets dispersion in a confined space: An experimental and computational fluid dynamics study

A Bahramian, G Ahmadi - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In this study, the effects of sneeze velocity profiles, including peak velocity (PV), peak
velocity time (PVT), and sneeze duration time (SDT), on the dispersion of respiratory …