Recent progress on studies of airborne infectious disease transmission, air quality, and thermal comfort in the airliner cabin air environment

F Wang, R You, T Zhang, Q Chen - Indoor air, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Airborne transmission of infectious diseases through air travel has become a major concern,
especially during the COVID‐19 pandemic. The flying public and crew members have long …

Airborne transmission and control of respiratory infectious diseases in different scenarios: A bibliometric study

B Kong, Y Cui, H Shi, Y Jiang - Indoor and Built Environment, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019 has drawn public awareness to the
transmission of respiratory infectious diseases. To better comprehend the developments and …

Effect of personalized air curtain combined with mixing ventilation on dispersion of aerosols released at different velocities from respiratory activities during close …

J Xu, C Wang, H Guo - Journal of Building Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Release velocities of aerosols vary among people and respiratory activities. To better
promote the application of personalized air curtain (PAC) in practice, this work investigated …

Airplane cabin mixing ventilation with time‐periodic supply: Contaminant mass fluxes and ventilation efficiency

JH Thysen, T van Hooff, B Blocken, GJ van Heijst - Indoor air, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Airplane cabin ventilation is essential to ensure passengers' well‐being. The conventional
ventilation method is mixing ventilation with a statistically steady supply, which, according to …

Airborne infection risk of nearby passengers in a cabin environment and implications for infection control

CT Wang, JC Xu, SC Fu, CYH Chao - Travel medicine and infectious …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Expiratory droplets cause high infection risk to nearby passengers via airborne
route. Methods: We built a two-row four-seat setup to simulate a public transport cabin. A …

Zonal model for predicting contaminant distribution in stratum ventilated rooms

Y Lu, Y Zhang, Z Lin - Indoor air, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate prediction of the non‐uniform contaminant distribution under stratum ventilation
(SV) is crucial for optimal design for reducing contaminant exposure risks. Compared with …

The effect of head orientation and personalized ventilation on bioaerosol deposition from a cough

J Xu, C Wang, SC Fu, CYH Chao - Indoor air, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Head orientations directly determine movement directions of exhaled pathogen‐laden
droplets, while there is a lack of research about the effect of the infected person's head …

Effectiveness of air cleaner on mitigating the transmission of respiratory disease in a dental clinic environment

G Yang, Y Wang, KC Chan, KW Mui, TF Flemmig… - Building …, 2024 - Springer
In dental clinics with an open floor plan, the risk of patient-to-patient transmission of
respiratory disease is a concern. During dental procedures large amounts of bioaerosol are …

Effect of environmental factors on the concentration distribution of bioaerosols with different particle sizes in an enclosed space

X Duan, C Shen, D Chen… - Indoor and Built …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
COVID-19 has alerted us about the need to quantify the effect of different environmental
factors on the concentration distribution of bioaerosols. An experimental investigation was …

[HTML][HTML] Exposure Assessment of Airborne Bacteria and Fungi in the Aircraft

DY Kim, KY Kim - Safety and Health at Work, 2022 - Elsevier
Objective The exposure levels of disease-causing bacteria and germs were assessed on
aircraft cleaning workers on multiple different aircrafts. Method Five measuring points were …