Abstract:An elevator shaft provides passage for air exchange across floors and thus imposes infectious disease transmission risk. The moving elevator car generates positive air pressure in the shaft section to which the car approaches, while negative air pressure is generated in the section where the car leaves away. This investigation adopted computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to model the exchange airflow between the lobbies of each floor and the shaft accompanying the car movement. Dynamic distributions of the air p… Show more
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