Airborne spread of expiratory droplet nuclei between the occupants of indoor environments: A review

ZT Ai, AK Melikov - Indoor air, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This article reviews past studies of airborne transmission between occupants in indoor
environments, focusing on the spread of expiratory droplet nuclei from mouth/nose to …

An exploration of the political, social, economic and cultural factors affecting how different global regions initially reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic

JW Tang, MA Caniza, M Dinn, DE Dwyer… - Interface …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Responses to the early (February–July 2020) COVID-19 pandemic varied widely, globally.
Reasons for this are multiple but likely relate to the healthcare and financial resources then …

Airflow dynamics of human jets: sneezing and breathing-potential sources of infectious aerosols

JW Tang, AD Nicolle, CA Klettner, J Pantelic, L Wang… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Natural human exhalation flows such as coughing, sneezing and breathing can be
considered as 'jet-like'airflows in the sense that they are produced from a single source in a …

A review on applications of CFD modeling in COVID-19 pandemic

F Mohamadi, A Fazeli - Archives of Computational Methods in …, 2022 - Springer
COVID-19 pandemic has started a big challenge to the world health and economy during
recent years. Many efforts were made to use the computation fluid dynamic (CFD) approach …

A review on the transmission of COVID-19 based on cough/sneeze/breath flows

M El Hassan, H Assoum, N Bukharin… - … Physical Journal Plus, 2022 - epjplus.epj.org
COVID-19 pandemic has recently had a dramatic impact on society. The understanding of
the disease transmission is of high importance to limit its spread between humans. The …

Cough and the transmission of tuberculosis

RD Turner, GH Bothamley - The Journal of infectious diseases, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Cough is a predominant feature of respiratory infection and, in tuberculosis, is of prime
importance for transmitting infection. Tuberculosis is transmitted by the air, yet the process …

Airborne dispersion of droplets during coughing: a physical model of viral transmission

H Li, FY Leong, G Xu, CW Kang, KH Lim, BH Tan… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
The Covid-19 pandemic has focused attention on airborne transmission of viruses. Using
realistic air flow simulation, we model droplet dispersion from coughing and study the …

Exhaled air dispersion during coughing with and without wearing a surgical or N95 mask

DS Hui, BK Chow, L Chu, SS Ng, N Lee, T Gin… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Objectives We compared the expelled air dispersion distances during coughing from a
human patient simulator (HPS) lying at 45° with and without wearing a surgical mask or N95 …

Recent research on expiratory particles in respiratory viral infection and control strategies: A review

Y Bu, R Ooka, H Kikumoto, W Oh - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2021 - Elsevier
The global spread of coronavirus disease 2019 poses a significant threat to human health.
In this study, recent research on the characteristics of expiratory particles and flow is …

[HTML][HTML] Flow visualization of an N95 respirator with and without an exhalation valve using schlieren imaging and light scattering

M Staymates - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
This work demonstrates the qualitative fluid flow characteristics of a standard N95 respirator
with and without an exhalation valve. Schlieren imaging was used to compare an adult male …