Airborne cross-infection risk between two people standing in surroundings with a vertical temperature gradient

HVAC and R Research

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 552-561

  Nielsen, Peter V ^a   Olmedo, Inés ^b   De Adana, Manuel Ruiz ^b   Grzelecki, Piotr ^a   Jensen, Rasmus L ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS-INFECTION; DISPLACEMENT VENTILATION; FACE TO FACE; GASEOUS SUBSTANCES; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; MICROENVIRONMENTS; ROOM AIR DISTRIBUTION; SMALL PARTICLES; TRACER GAS; TRANSMISSION ROUTE; VERTICAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS;

EXPERIMENTS; VENTILATION;

THERMAL GRADIENTS;

EID: 84855689846     PISSN: 10789669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10789669.2011.598441     Document Type: Conference Paper

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