[HTML][HTML] Modeling and simulation of the potential indoor airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 virus through respiratory droplets

SP Bhat, BV Kumar, SR Kalamkar, V Kumar… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Respiratory viruses are transported from an infected person to other neighboring people
through respiratory droplets. These small droplets are easily advected by air currents in a …

[HTML][HTML] Modelling aerosol transport and virus exposure with numerical simulations in relation to SARS-CoV-2 transmission by inhalation indoors

V Vuorinen, M Aarnio, M Alava, V Alopaeus… - Safety science, 2020 - Elsevier
We provide research findings on the physics of aerosol and droplet dispersion relevant to
the hypothesized aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2 during the current pandemic. We …

Dispersion of virus-laden droplets in ventilated rooms: Effect of homemade facemasks

AM Aliyu, D Singh, C Uzoka, R Mishra - Journal of Building Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract In December 2019, the SARS-CoV-2 virus emerged and rapidly spread throughout
the world. It causes the respiratory disease COVID-19 via the transmission of microbial …

Modeling and experimental study of dispersion and deposition of respiratory emissions with implications for disease transmission

S Coldrick, A Kelsey, MJ Ivings, TG Foat, ST Parker… - Indoor …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The ability to model the dispersion of pathogens in exhaled breath is important for
characterizing transmission of the SARS‐CoV‐2 virus and other respiratory pathogens. A …

Host-to-host airborne transmission as a multiphase flow problem for science-based social distance guidelines

S Balachandar, S Zaleski, A Soldati, G Ahmadi… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has strikingly demonstrated how important it is to develop
fundamental knowledge related to the generation, transport and inhalation of pathogen …

[PDF][PDF] Survival of expiratory aerosols in a room: Study using a bi-compartment and bi-component indoor air model

S Bathula, S Anand, T Thajudeen, YS Mayya… - Aerosol and Air Quality …, 2021 - aaqr.org
Recent studies argue that inhalation of respiratory droplets in indoor environments is one of
the significant routes of COVID-19 infection. In many cases, patients are isolated in hospitals …

Experimental evaluation of respiratory droplet spread to rooms connected by a central ventilation system

A Vlachokostas, CA Burns, TI Salsbury, RC Daniel… - Indoor …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents results from an experimental study to ascertain the transmissibility of the
SARS‐CoV‐2 virus between rooms in a building that are connected by a central ventilation …

Prediction of respiratory droplets evolution for safer academic facilities planning amid COVID-19 and future pandemics: A numerical approach

JJ Quiñones, A Doosttalab, S Sokolowski… - Journal of Building …, 2022 - Elsevier
Airborne dispersion of the novel SARS-CoV-2 through the droplets produced during
expiratory activities is one of the main transmission mechanisms of this virus from one …

Indoor transmission dynamics of expired SARS-CoV-2 virus in a model African hospital ward

JA Adeniran, IA Mohammed, OI Muniru… - … of Environmental Health …, 2021 - Springer
Cough and sneeze droplets' interactions with indoor air of a typical hospital clinic that could
be majorly found in developing African countries were studied to investigate the …

Size dependent infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 via respiratory droplets spread through central ventilation systems

LF Pease, TI Salsbury, K Anderson… - … Communications in Heat …, 2022 - Elsevier
Here we evaluate the transport of respiratory droplets that carry SARS-CoV-2 through
central air handling systems in multiroom buildings. Respiratory droplet size modes arise …