{"id":241641,"date":"2021-04-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/sin-categoria\/prof-rainald-lohner-explains-flow-of-covid-particles-in-airplanes\/"},"modified":"2021-04-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T22:00:00","slug":"prof-rainald-lohner-explains-flow-of-covid-particles-in-airplanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimne.com\/es\/prof-rainald-lohner-explains-flow-of-covid-particles-in-airplanes\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Rainald L\u00f6hner explains flow of COVID particles in airplanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/04\/17\/travel\/flying-plane-covid-19-safety.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimne.com\/cvdata\/cntr2\/spc2\/dtos\/mdia\/News\/nyt-propagation.png\" alt=\"Propagation- new york times\" \/><\/a><br \/><button class=\"btn btn-default\"><span style=\"color: white !important\">Click and Scroll to see simulations<\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cfd.gmu.edu\/~rlohner\/pages\/people\/lohner.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Rainald L&ouml;hner\"><strong>Rainald L&ouml;hner<\/strong><\/a>, a professor of computational fluid dynamics at <strong>George Mason University in the US<\/strong> and a regular <strong>visiting scientist in CIMNE<\/strong>, has explained<strong> how the ventilation system of airplanes ensures air quality and prevents the propagations of pathogen particles<\/strong> (such as COVID19 particles) within a plane cabin.<\/p>\n<p>The explanation is based on the <strong>simulations of the transport in air of droplet particles induced by persons sneezing and\/or coughing in an airplane cabin using computational fluid dynamics methods and software developed by Prof. L&ouml;hner<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The details of the simulation approach can be seen in these recent publications of Prof. L&ouml;hner and his group in the US in cooperation with Profs. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cimne.com\/sgp\/dir\/Profile.aspx?id=456\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Sergio Idelsohn\">Sergio Idelsohn<\/a><\/strong> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cimne.com\/eo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Eugenio O&ntilde;ate \"><strong>Eugenio O&ntilde;ate<\/strong><\/a> at CIMNE:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>High fidelity simulations of pathogen propagation, transmission and mitigation in the buil environment by Rainald L&ouml;hner, Harbir Antil, Ashok Srinivasan, Sergio Idelsohn and Eugenio O&ntilde;ate, <em>Archives for Computational Methods in Engineering.<\/em> In press. To be published in 2021<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00466-020-01881-7&nbsp;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Detailed simulation of viral propagation in the built environment\">Detailed simulation of viral propagation in the built environment<\/a><\/strong> by Rinalda L&ouml;hner, Harbir Antil, <span>Sergio Idelsohn &nbsp;and Eugenio O&ntilde;ate<\/span>, <em>Computational Mechanics<\/em> 66 (5), 1093-1107, 2020<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>An animated view of the principles of air ventilation in airplanes explained by Prof. L&ouml;hner<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/04\/17\/travel\/flying-plane-covid-19-safety.html\">can be seen in this article published in the<em> New York Times<\/em><\/a> <\/strong>on April 17, 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The figures below show snapshots of the simulations of the air flow in an airplane.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimne.com\/cvdata\/cntr2\/spc2\/dtos\/mdia\/News\/propagation.png\" alt=\"Propagation\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimne.com\/cvdata\/cntr2\/spc2\/dtos\/mdia\/News\/propagation-2.png\" alt=\"Propagation\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimne.com\/cvdata\/cntr2\/spc2\/dtos\/mdia\/News\/propagation-3.png\" alt=\"Propagation\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click and Scroll to see simulations Rainald L&ouml;hner, a professor of computational fluid dynamics at George Mason University in the US and a regular visiting scientist in CIMNE, has explained how the ventilation system of airplanes ensures air quality and prevents the propagations of pathogen particles (such as COVID19 particles) within a plane cabin. 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