Indoor aerosol science aspects of SARS‐CoV‐2 transmission

WW Nazaroff - Indoor Air, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Knowledge about person‐to‐person transmission of SARS‐CoV‐2 is reviewed,
emphasizing three components: emission of virus‐containing particles and drops from …

Unanswered questions on the airborne transmission of COVID-19

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 …

Effect of human thermal plume and ventilation interaction on bacteria-carrying particles diffusion in operating room microenvironment

Z Liu, D Yin, Y Niu, G Cao, H Liu, L Wang - Energy and Buildings, 2022 - Elsevier
In the operating room (OR), ventilation and thermal plumes can affect the distribution of
bacteria-carrying particles (BCPs). Especially in the operating microenvironment, the …

Performance analysis of a novel personalized air curtain for preventing inhalation of particulate matters in industrial environments

J Ma, H Qian, F Liu, X Zheng - Journal of Building Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Personalized air curtains promise to reduce respiratory exposure in industrial environments.
This work explored the performance of normal safe helmets equipped with air curtains to …

Effectiveness of head-mounted air supply in reducing pollutant exposure: a static case

X Wei, Y Xu, Y Yu, M Ma, G Niu, G Cao, L Wang… - Building and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study presents a head-mounted air supply for reducing pollutant exposure during
industrial activities. The optimization of the air outlet, the effectiveness of different flow rates …

[HTML][HTML] Bedroom ventilation performance in daycare centers under three typical ventilation strategies

H Zheng, Z Wang, M Loomans, S Walker… - Building and …, 2023 - Elsevier
With increasing reliance on daycare centers for early childhood development, ensuring
healthy environments in semi-enclosed baby beds for napping is crucial, given infants' …

Physiology or Psychology: What Drives Human Emissions of Carbon Dioxide and Ammonia?

S Yang, G Bekö, P Wargocki, M Zhang… - Environmental …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Humans are the primary sources of CO2 and NH3 indoors. Their emission rates may be
influenced by human physiological and psychological status. This study investigated the …

Machine learning-based reduced-order reconstruction method for flow fields

H Gao, W Qian, J Dong, J Liu - Energy and Buildings, 2024 - Elsevier
The real-time prediction of flow fields has scientific and engineering significance, although it
is currently challenging. To address this issue, we propose a nonintrusive supervised …

Numerical study on the onset of global-scale flow from individual buoyant plumes: implications for indoor disease transmission

CB Zhao, JZ Wu, BF Wang, T Chang, Q Zhou… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Transport of exhaled droplets and aerosol suspension is a main route for the transmission of
highly infectious respiratory diseases. A poorly ventilated room, where human body heat …

Optimizing thermal comfort in physical exercise spaces: A study of spatial and thermal factors

AB Avci, GA Balci, T Basaran - Energy and Buildings, 2024 - Elsevier
Fitness centers have become famous for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. They require
different thermal comfort conditions and higher fresh air supply rates than other indoor …