Quantum mechanics

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak

Engineering

Aerospace engineering

Virology

Shields

Psychiatry

Range (aeronautics)

Telecommunications

Economics

Computer science

Airborne transmission

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)

Outbreak

Airplane

Geology

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Oceanography

Physics

Simulation

Electromagnetic shielding

Infectious disease (medical specialty)

Environmental science

Particle (ecology)

Aerosol

Momentum (technical analysis)

Intervention (counseling)

Medicine

Transmission (telecommunications)

Finance

Meteorology

Pandemic

Disease

Aeronautics

Electrical engineering

Pathology

Physics of Fluids

Identifying economically viable intervention measures to reduce COVID-19 transmission on aircraft is of critical importance especially as new SARS-CoV2 variants emerge. Computational fluid-particle dynamic simulations are employed to investigate aerosol transmission and intervention measures on a Boeing 737 cabin zone. The present study compares aerosol transmission in three models: (a) a model at full passenger capacity (60 passengers), (b) a model at reduced capacity (40 passengers), and (c) a model at full capacity with sneeze guards/shields between passengers. Lagrangian simulations are used to model aerosol transport using particle sizes in the 1-50

Simulation of aerosol transmission on a Boeing 737 airplane with intervention measures for COVID-19 mitigation