Advances in Chemical Contaminants and Biological Droplets Dispersion into Indoor Environment
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2021) | Viewed by 3480
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Interests: health risk assessment; occupational health & safety; public health; air pollution; process safety
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Interests: conventional and renewable energy sources; hybrid and conjugated energy systems; HVAC systems; energy savings; energy management; implementation of energy technologies in buildings, built environment, and industry; energy and environmental assessment; technoeconomic analysis; efficient energy use; thermal comfort; indoor air quality
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Interests: indoor air quality; air pollution; source apportionment; particulate matter physics and chemistry; ventilation; exposure
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the last few months, we have been witnesses of an unprecedented pandemic outburst due to the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The rapid spread of COVID-19 has had a major influence on our daily lives and habits, as well as the way we interact with each other. Many state governments have enforced nationwide street restrictions on public movement on their citizens in the hope of controlling and reducing the related risk of infection to the population, as well as the number of deaths. During a pandemic outburst, people usually spend most of their time into enclosed indoor building environments, increasing the cross-infection risk due to the space limitation and poor air ventilation. As a result, it is essential to investigate the characteristics and dispersion mechanisms of chemical and biological airborne particles among occupants into indoor building environments with the aim of controlling the spread of infectious disease. Despite the great improvements that have been achieved in the fields of microbiology, epidemiology, physics, and engineering, it still remains a challenge to fully understand the mechanisms of microorganism spread and dynamics of droplet formation among occupants under different characteristics and conditions of the building’s indoor environment, including the operation of HVAC systems.
This Special Issue invites high-quality scientific articles related to the current understanding of chemical contaminants and biological droplet dispersion into indoor environment, using advanced numerical (e.g., computational fluid dynamics) and experimental (e.g. flow and tracing gas) methods. Topics of interest for the Special Issue include but are not limited to the following:
- Human exhalation flow;
- Measurements of the concentration field in breathing zones and imaging visualization of expiratory flows;
- Quantitatively evaluated cross-infection risk;
- Aerosols and tracing gas techniques;
- Ventilation strategy and occupancy load;
- Exposure assessment;
- Airborne virus particles.
Dr. Christos D. Argyropoulos
Dr. Apostolos Michopoulos
Dr. Dikaia E. Saraga
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- indoor air
- computational fluid dynamics
- aerosols
- bioaerosols
- SARS-CoV-2
- COVID-19
- dispersion exhaled breathing droplets
- ventilation
- resuspension
- building environment
- cross-infection risk
- airborne transmission
- indoor air quality
- chemical hazards
- biological hazards
- airborne contaminants
- indoor environmental health
- chemical contaminants
- biological contaminants
- living conditions
- health
- Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes model
- large eddy simulation
- direct numerical simulation
- multizone air modelling
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