Computational Fluid Dynamics

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Exposure to hazardous air contaminants affects an estimated 35 million United States workers. Computational Fluid Dynamics provides a practical, efficient, and cost effective means of investigating air contaminant exposure and evaluating prevention strategies. The technique can supplement traditional methods such as air sampling and basic ventilation calculations. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health is currently leading Computational Fluid Dynamics research in the following areas: 1. Investigating aircraft cabin disease transmission through the prediction of aerosol dispersion; 2. Evaluating the effectiveness of certain engineering controls in construction, manufacturing and transportation industries; 3. Understanding the behavior of air flows inside sampling and measurement devices to improve exposure assessment accuracy; 4. Detecting and analyzing chemical and biological threats; Using Computational Fluid Dynamics, researchers and occupational health and safety professionals can identify exposure regions, devise methods for preventing exposure, and improve exposure assessment accuracy. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Aerosols Aircraft Air Pollutants, Occupational Air Pollution, Indoor Communicable Diseases Construction Industry Disease Vectors Engineering Environmental Monitoring Occupational Health Particulate Matter Safety Transportation

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• Keywords:
  Air-contamination Airborne-particles Aircrews Construction-industry Disease-transmission Disease-vectors Engineering-controls Exposure-assessment Infectious-diseases Transportation-industry
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications   ; NIOSH Numbered Publications  
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB2012175
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet ; Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DART - Division of Applied Research and Technology ; R2P - Research 2 Practice ; DART - Division of Applied Research and Technology ; R2P - Research 2 Practice
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health ; Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America ; North America
• Pages in Document:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20041792
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2012-175, 2012 Sep; :1
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c1675d8d266e446f32a03160fca5ab310768fc976418ac66ba08feedbafa7061a207695ddd304674163a12ea37231544787f1f7639fbb0df229e693b91073396
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/210029/cdc_210029_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 979.07 KB ]