Predicting spatial distribution of infection risk of airborne transmission diseases in a hospital ward

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 131-136

  Qian, Hua ^a   Li, Yuguo ^a   Nielsen, Peter V ^b   Huang, Xinghuang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Airborne transmission of diseases; CFD; SARS; Wells Riley equation

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE TRANSMISSION; HONG-KONG; HOSPITAL WARDS; SARS; UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION; WELLS-RILEY EQUATION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FORECASTING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WELLS;

HOSPITALS;

EID: 84871544440     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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