Numerical simulation of human exposure to aerosols generated during compressed air spray-painting in cross-flow ventilated booths

Journal of Fluids Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 64-70

  Flynn, Michael R ^a   Sills, Eric D ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b North Carolina Supercomputing Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Computational fluid dynamics; Exposure modeling; Occupational hygiene; Spray painting; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347097563     PISSN: 00982202     EISSN: 1528901X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1340636     Document Type: Article

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