Mechanisms controlling the transport and evaporation of human exhaled respiratory droplets containing the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus: a review

LK Norvihoho, J Yin, ZF Zhou, J Han, B Chen… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Transmission of the coronavirus disease 2019 is still ongoing despite mass vaccination,
lockdowns, and other drastic measures to control the pandemic. This is due partly to our lack …

Interferometric laser imaging for respiratory droplets sizing

L Grandoni, L Méès, N Grosjean, G Leuzzi, P Monti… - Experiments in …, 2023 - Springer
Due to its importance in airborne disease transmission, especially because of the COVID-19
pandemic, much attention has recently been devoted by the scientific community to the …

Effect of sneeze flow velocity profiles on the respiratory droplets dispersion in a confined space: An experimental and computational fluid dynamics study

A Bahramian, G Ahmadi - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In this study, the effects of sneeze velocity profiles, including peak velocity (PV), peak
velocity time (PVT), and sneeze duration time (SDT), on the dispersion of respiratory …

Effectiveness of RANS in predicting indoor airborne viral transmission: A critical evaluation against LES

K Choudhary, KA Krishnaprasad, S Pandey, N Zgheib… - Computers & …, 2023 - Elsevier
We investigate the dispersal of droplet nuclei inside a canonical room of size 10× 10× 3. 2 m
3 with a four-way cassette air-conditioning unit placed at the center of the ceiling. We use …

Effects of recirculation and air change per hour on COVID-19 transmission in indoor settings: A CFD study with varying HVAC parameters

MT Islam, Y Chen, D Seong, M Verhougstraete, YJ Son - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
COVID-19 has already claimed over 7 million lives and has infected over 775 million people
globally [1]. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, spreads primarily through droplets …

Estimation of airborne infection risk in a school classroom according to operation of a floor-standing type ventilation system

HW Shin, DH Kang - Journal of Building Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Horizontal airflow, typically from floor-standing type ventilation systems used in school
classrooms in some countries including Korea, may increase the risk of airborne infection …

The airborne transmission of viruses causes tight transmission bottlenecks

P Sinclair, L Zhao, CB Beggs… - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
The transmission bottleneck describes the number of viral particles that initiate an infection
in a new host. Previous studies have used genome sequence data to suggest that …

Numerical modeling of sneeze airflow and its validation with an experimental dataset

W Oh, R Ooka, H Kikumoto, M Han - Indoor air, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, we aimed at providing datasets using experimental results to validate the
sneeze airflow. In addition, the boundary conditions for the sneeze simulation that could …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of upper respiratory tract anatomy and head movement on the buoyant flow and particle dispersion generated in a violent expiratory event

J Pallares, A Fabregat, S Cito - Journal of Aerosol Science, 2022 - Elsevier
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, interest in understanding the turbulent dispersion of
airborne pathogen-laden particles has significantly increased. The ability of infectious …

Correlation between beverage consumption and droplet production during respiratory activity using interferometric Mie imaging experiment

W Oh, Y Bu, H Kikumoto, R Ooka - Journal of Aerosol Science, 2024 - Elsevier
This study investigates the effects of beverage consumption on droplet production during
coughing and speaking. Interferometric Mie imaging (IMI) measures particle size using the …