Personalized ventilation as a control measure for airborne transmissible disease spread

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 6, Issue SUPPL. 6, 2009, Pages

  Pantelic, Jovan ^a   Sze To, Gin Nam ^b   Tham, Kwok Wai ^a   Chao, Christopher Y H ^b   Khoo, Yong Chuan Mike ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c TSI Instruments   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Airborne infection; Breathing thermal manikin; Cough; Particle image velocimetry; Personalized ventilation; Transmission

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; FLOW VISUALIZATION; MULTIPHASE FLOW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

AIRBORNE INFECTION; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; PERSONALIZED VENTILATION; THERMAL MANIKIN;

VENTILATION;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; COUGHING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA; NONHUMAN; ROOM VENTILATION; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 73449138225     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2009.0311.focus     Document Type: Article

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