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TOPIC
The COVID19 pandemic has emphasised the importance of preventing the spread of infected respiratory aerosol particles in crowded spaces, including sports stadiums. Research conducted by Professor Bert Blocken and his teams at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and KU Leuven in Belgium has demonstrated how weather conditions affect aerosol particle concentrations, and how these concentrations can be predicted based on weather forecasts.
EARLIER WORK
Some of our earlier work on sport stadium ventilation and on COVID-19 can be found below. Previous scientific publications on large stadium ventilation:
* Paper 1: Link to publisher’s website: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
* Paper 2: Link to publisher’s website: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... * Paper 3: Link to publisher’s website: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
* Paper 1: Link to postprint personal website: http://www.urbanphysics.net/2010_ENVS...
* Paper 2: Link to postprint personal website: http://www.urbanphysics.net/2010_CAF_...
* Paper 3: Link to postprint personal website: http://www.urbanphysics.net/2013_BAE_... Previous scientific publications on ventilation and aircleaning against COVID-19:
* Paper 1: Link to publisher’s website (Open Access): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
* Paper 2: Link to publisher’s website (Open Access): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
CONSORTIUM
This work was funded by the Top Sector Life Sciences and Health (Health~Holland) in the Netherlands in a Public-Private-Partnership and by the COVID-19 HPC Consortium. The simulations were run with Ansys Fluent CFD on Microsoft Azure Cloud. The work was done by the research team of Professor Bert Blocken at Eindhoven University of Technology and KU Leuven, supported by the Johan Cruijff ArenA soccer stadium in Amsterdam, the companies Ansys, Microsoft and PlasmaMade, and Sportinnovator.