[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 …

CFD simulation of flow in a long street canyon under a perpendicular wind direction: Evaluation of three computational settings

ZT Ai, CM Mak - Building and Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
A street canyon is an important platform for the understanding of local atmospheric flow and
other related processes in the built environment. Many previous studies focused on long …

[HTML][HTML] Large-eddy simulation of pollutant dispersion in generic urban street canyons: Guidelines for domain size

X Zheng, H Montazeri, B Blocken - Journal of Wind Engineering and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Pollutant dispersion in urban street canyons has been widely investigated by large-eddy
simulation (LES). Many LES studies focused on generic street canyons under a wind …

Modeling and analysis of the effects of barrier height on automobiles emission dispersion

A Issakhov, P Omarova - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, a mathematical model has been developed that describes the characteristics
of fluid flow and dispersion of pollutants in a certain quarter of Almaty city, Kazakhstan. The …

The influence of roadside green belts and street canyon aspect ratios on air pollution dispersion and personal exposure

X Zhu, X Wang, L Lei, Y Zhao - Urban Climate, 2022 - Elsevier
Vehicle exhaust emissions are major sources of air pollution in urban areas. This study
investigates the influence of roadside green belts, spatial urban street layout, and wind …

Lung cancer risk assessment due to traffic-generated particles exposure in urban street canyons: A numerical modelling approach

M Scungio, L Stabile, V Rizza, A Pacitto, A Russi… - Science of the total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Combustion-generated nanoparticles are responsible for negative health effects due to their
ability to penetrate in the lungs, carrying toxic compounds with them. In urban areas, the …

CFD simulations of wind-induced ventilation in apartment buildings with vertical voids: Effects of pilotis and wind fin on ventilation performance

N Kumar, T Kubota, Y Tominaga, M Shirzadi… - Building and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Double-loaded affordable apartments are commonly seen in tropical developing countries to
maximize total floor areas. However, the double-loaded apartments would possibly cause …

A simplified tempo-spatial model to predict airborne pathogen release risk in enclosed spaces: An Eulerian-Lagrangian CFD approach

PA Mirzaei, M Moshfeghi, H Motamedi… - Building and …, 2022 - Elsevier
COVID19 pathogens are primarily transmitted via airborne respiratory droplets expelled from
infected bio-sources. However, there is a lack of simplified accurate source models that can …

Impacts of traffic tidal flow on pollutant dispersion in a non-uniform urban street canyon

T Ming, W Fang, C Peng, C Cai, R De Richter… - Atmosphere, 2018 - mdpi.com
A three-dimensional geometrical model was established based on a section of street
canyons in the 2nd Ring Road of Wuhan, China, and a mathematical model describing the …

Wind tunnel measurements of the urban boundary layer development over a historical district in Italy

A Ricci, M Burlando, A Freda, MP Repetto - Building and Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents the results of an experimental study aimed at investigating the urban
boundary layer in a district of Livorno city, in Tuscany. The wind flow over this area has been …