Thermal effect of human body on cough droplets evaporation and dispersion in an enclosed space

Building and Environment

Volumn 148, Issue , 2019, Pages 96-106

  Yan, Yihuan ^a   Li, Xiangdong ^a   Tu, Jiyuan ^a,b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CFD; Cough droplets; Evaporation; Thermal plume; Time dependent droplet size; Vapour plume

Indexed keywords

AIR; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DISPERSIONS; EVAPORATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; THERMAL PLUMES;

DROPLET EVAPORATION; DROPLET SIZES; EULERIAN-LAGRANGIAN APPROACH; EVAPORATION PROCESS; EVAPORATION RATE; LOCAL AIR VELOCITIES; TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITIES; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

DROP FORMATION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DROPLET; EVAPORATION; HUMIDITY; PLUME; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 85056234978     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2018.10.039     Document Type: Article

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