Modelling infection risk and emergency evacuation from bioaerosol leakage around an urban vaccine factory

Autor: zhijan Liu, Chenxing Hu, Hongwei Cao, Minnan Wu, Siqi Zhang, Junzhou He, Chuan Jiang
Rok vydání: 2022
Popis: Heightened interests in modelling outdoor diffusion and transmission of bioaerosols due to the prevalence of COVID-19 in urban environment led to a better knowledge of the issues concerning exposure risks and evacuation planning. In this study, the numerical method was applied in calculating the dispersion of bioaerosols. Then, the infection risk at the pedestrian level was assessed by the improved Wells-Reily equation. Finally, the Dijkstra algorithm derived from the greedy algorithm based on the was adopted to predict the evacuation path. The results show that the deposition of bioaerosols can reach 80 m on windward side wall of the high-rise buildings driven by the buoyancy force. Compared with stable thermal stratification, the infection risk of unstable thermal stratification in upstream and downstream of the research area can increase by 4.76% and 0.88%, respectively. The present work provides a promising approach of infection risk assessment and evacuation planning for the emergency response to urban bioaerosol leakage.
Databáze: OpenAIRE