Bioaerosol Characterisation, Transportation and Transmission: Fundamental, Modelling and Application

This book aims to predict and model the transport of bioaerosols, identify their transmission characteristics, and assess occupants’ infection risks.

Although existing epidemiological books provide fundamental infection rates of existing diseases, the ability to predict emerging disease transmission in the air and assess occupants’ infection risks to the bioaerosols is significantly lacking. This book is considered a professional book that provides an in-depth discussion of the aforementioned issues and provides potential approaches to solve these issues, which would be highly demanded by readers in this emerging research field. This book offers an essential and systematic analysis of the fate of bioaerosols from their release in the air to their final destination in human respiratory systems through direct 3D visualization techniques. It also provides a quantifiable method to assess each occupant’s infection risks to the infectious bioaerosols in indoor environments.

The readers will learn essential fundamental characteristics of bioaerosols (active time, viability, etc.) and advanced skills for integrating these properties into numerical modeling and assessing the occupants’ exposure risks.