Infection risk of indoor airborne transmission of diseases in multiple spaces

Architectural Science Review

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 14-20

  Tung, Yun Chun ^a   Hu, Shih Cheng ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Airborne diseases; Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Hospital wards; Isolation rooms; Ventilation; Wells Riley equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 40549089609     PISSN: 00038628     EISSN: 17589622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3763/asre.2008.5103     Document Type: Article

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