Numerical investigation of airborne contaminant transport under different vortex structures in the aircraft cabin

Highlights • Introduced vortex structure to deconstruct the airflow in the cabin.• Investigated the “lock” phenomenon for contaminants released in the vorticity.• Analyzed effects of thermal buoyancy on the contaminant longitudinal transmission.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer

• Publication date

  2016-02-04

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Engineering, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2016.01.004PMID 32226103PMCID 7094279
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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