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cord-274355-6hiutrct	Satheesan, Manoj Kumar	A numerical study of ventilation strategies for infection risk mitigation in general inpatient wards	2020-02-22		.txt	text/plain	4945	274	56	This study investigates the transport mechanism and deposition patterns of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) within a typical six bedded general inpatient ward cubicle through numerical simulation. Although it is widely assumed that increasing the air change rate (ACH) can reduce infection risks, it was shown that the risk of exposure to pathogens could increase with an increased ventilation rate under certain circumstances BUILD SIMUL https://doi.org/10.1007/s12273-020-0623-4 Satheesan et al. As the number of research studies on ventilation systems for general inpatient wards with respect to air change rate and exhaust airflow rate is limited, this study evaluates the combined impacts of these two parameters on the airflow as well as infection risk distributions of droplet nuclei of size 0.167 μm (i.e. MERS-CoV) within an air-conditioned general inpatient ward cubicle. Furthermore, the randomness associated with particle deposition rates (r w , r c , and r f ) under different air change rate conditions can be attributed to the asymmetric airflow distribution patterns and locations of the infected patients.	./cache/cord-274355-6hiutrct.txt	./txt/cord-274355-6hiutrct.txt