Natural Ventilation for the Prevention of Airborne Contagion [PDF]
PLoS Medicine, 2007 Institutional transmission of airborne infections such as tuberculosis (TB) is an important public health problem, especially in resource-limited settings where protective measures such as negative-pressure isolation rooms are difficult to implement. Natural ventilation may offer a low-cost alternative.
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Large-eddy simulations to define building-specific similarity relationships for natural ventilation flow rates [PDF]
Flow, 2023 Natural ventilation can play an important role towards preventing the spread of airborne infections in indoor environments. However, quantifying natural ventilation flow rates is a challenging task due to significant variability in the boundary ...
Yunjae Hwang, Catherine Gorlé
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Assessment of Natural Ventilation Potential for Residential Buildings across Different Climate Zones in Australia [PDF]
Atmosphere, 2017 In this study, the natural ventilation potential of residential buildings was numerically investigated based on a typical single-story house in the three most populous climate zones in Australia.
Zijing Tan, Xiang Deng
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Effects of Natural Ventilation and Saliva Standard Ejectors during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Quantitative Analysis of Aerosol Produced during Dental Procedures. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2021 The novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has renewed attention to aerosol-generating procedures (AGPs). Dental-care workers are at high risk of contamination by SARS-CoV-2.
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Analysis of Impact of Natural Ventilation Strategies in Ventilation Rates and Indoor Environmental Acoustics Using Sensor Measurement Data in Educational Buildings. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel), 2021 Indoor environmental conditions can significantly affect occupants’ health and comfort. These conditions are especially important in educational buildings, where students, teachers and staff spend long periods of the day and are vulnerable to these ...
de la Hoz-Torres ML +3 more
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Portable HEPA filtration successfully augments natural-ventilation-mediated airborne particle clearance in a legacy design hospital ward. [PDF]
J Hosp Infect, 2023 As the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 pandemic has proceeded, ventilation has been recognized increasingly as an important tool in infection control.
Fennelly M +6 more
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Optimization of Window Positions for Wind-Driven Natural Ventilation Performance [PDF]
Energies, 2020 This paper optimizes opening positions on building facades to maximize the natural ventilation’s potential for ventilation and cooling purposes. The paper demonstrates how to apply computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation results to architectural ...
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Energies, 2020 Under-ventilation and high energy consumption are some of the problems associated with school classrooms. Thus, it is necessary to develop a ventilation strategy that is characterized by high energy-saving and ventilation efficiency.
Beungyong Park, Sihwan Lee
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Natural ventilation strategy and related issues to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) airborne transmission in a school building. [PDF]
Sci Total Environ, 2021 Park S, Choi Y, Song D, Kim EK.
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A Methodological Approach to Assess the Climatic Potential of Natural Ventilation Through Façades [PDF]
Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, 2019 Due to the rapid development of super insulated and airtight buildings, the energy requirement for mechanical ventilation is becoming more and more dominant in today’s highly efficient buildings. In this scenario, natural ventilation has the potential to
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