How far respiratory droplets move in indoor environments?

HB 2006 - Healthy Buildings: Creating a Healthy Indoor Environment for People, Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 309-314

  Xie, Xiaojian ^a   Li, Yuguo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Evaporation; Infection transmission; Movement; Relative humidity (RH); Respiratory droplets

Indexed keywords

DROPLET SIZES; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; INFECTION TRANSMISSION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MOVEMENT; NONISOTHERMAL; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL SALINE; RESPIRATORY ACTIVITY; SIMPLE PHYSICAL MODELS; TRANSMISSION ROUTE;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; EVAPORATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

DROPS;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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