Experimental and theoretical studies of contaminant transport due to human movement in a hospital corridor

This thesis considers numerical, physical and theoretical modelling approaches to investigate the influence of a person's wake on the dispersion of an airborne pathogen in a hospital corridor and the implications this has in terms of infection risk. The various physical and computational modell...

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Main Author: Wood, Richard
Other Authors: Noakes, Cath J. ; Borman, Duncan J.
Published: University of Leeds 2015
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.684989