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Dynamic assessment of the risk of airborne viral infection

Alessandro Cammarata, G. Cammarata

2021Indoor Air18 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

produced by exhalation in the air. Three case studies are discussed: a school, an office, a commercial activity. Complex scenarios include environmental sanitization, a variable number of people, and the possibility of simulating work shifts. The dynamic evaluation of the quanta of infection is also estimated, not foreseen by the Rudnick and Milton model, and involves updating the average values of the equivalent fraction of the indoor air with an improvement in the accuracy of the calculation due to the reduction of improper peaks of the stationary variables.

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Variable (mathematics)Work (physics)Infection riskDiscretizationFraction (chemistry)Environmental scienceSimulationComputer scienceMeteorologyStatisticsMathematicsEngineeringPhysicsMechanical engineeringMedicineChemistryIntensive care medicineOrganic chemistryMathematical analysisInfection Control and VentilationCOVID-19 epidemiological studiesBuilding Energy and Comfort Optimization