Impacts of human movement and ventilation mode on the indoor environment, droplet evaporation, and aerosol transmission risk at airport terminals

Y Zhao, Y Feng, L Ma - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The dispersion of the coronavirus pandemic has caused immense damage worldwide, and
people have begun to ruminate epidemic prevention strategies for public places. Airport …

A field study of CO2 and particulate matter characteristics during the transition season in the subway system in Tianjin, China

J Ren, J He, X Kong, W Xu, Y Kang, Z Yu, H Li - Energy and Buildings, 2022 - Elsevier
The daily passenger flow and ride times for subway systems are increasing in many large
cities. Understanding the characteristics of carbon dioxide (CO 2) and particulate matter …

Characteristics of the thermal environment, air quality, and passenger comfort in the underground transfer space of metro stations in Beijing

C Lin, L Wu, H Xia, M Zhen, C Shen, J Zhu… - Journal of Building …, 2022 - Elsevier
With the increase in Beijing's metro mileage and passenger numbers, it is becoming
especially necessary to investigate the indoor environment and passenger comfort of metro …

Enhancement effect of human movement on the high risk range of viral aerosols exhaled by a sitting person

J Wu, W Weng, M Fu, Y Li, M Lan - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Human movement could affect viral aerosol transmission. We carried out full-scale
experiments to study the effect of human movement on viral aerosols exhaled by a sitting …

Airborne transmission during short-term events: Direct route over indirect route

X Li, Z Ai, J Ye, CM Mak, HM Wong - Building Simulation, 2022 - Springer
Numerous short-term exposure events in public spaces were reported during the COVID-19
pandemic, especially during the spread of Delta and Omicron. However, the currently used …

Analysis of the effects of dynamic mesh update method on simulating indoor airflow induced by moving objects

H Zhou, K Zhong, H Jia, Y Kang - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Local interference flow induced by the movement of human bodies or objects indoors can
directly affect breathing air quality. However, very few studies have been carried out on the …

Robustness of ventilation systems in the control of walking-induced indoor fluctuations: Method development and case study

J Ren, J He, X Kong, H Li - Building Simulation, 2022 - Springer
Walking-induced fluctuations have a significant influence on indoor airflow and pollutant
dispersion. This study developed a method to quantify the robustness of ventilation systems …

Multi‐person movement‐induced airflow and the effects on virus‐laden expiratory droplet dispersion in indoor environments

J Wu, J Geng, M Fu, W Weng - Indoor air, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The multi‐person movement might cause complex induced airflow and affect the virus‐laden
expiratory droplet transmission in indoor environments. Using the dynamic mesh model in …

Transient and continuous effects of indoor human movement on nanoparticle concentrations in a sitting person's breathing zone

J Wu, W Weng, L Shen, M Fu - Science of The Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Particle concentration in a sitting person's breathing zone can be influenced by human
movement around the person, and the transient and continuous effects may differ. In this …

Experiment and numerical simulation investigation on wire-plate electrostatic precipitator with expanded-shrunk spoilers

L Liu, X Gu, L Zhang, T Sun, Z Cao, B Yu, J Li… - Powder Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, three types of wire-plate electrostatic precipitators with expanded-shrunk
spoilers (ESP-ESSs) were proposed. The influences of different geometric characteristics …