3 papers
physics.flu-dyn2026
Aerodynamic Drag and Heat Transfer Corrections for Dehydrated Pollen Particles: CFD-Based Modeling of Airborne Allergen Transport in Smart Urban Environments
Omar Hamad, Samer Ali, Mahmoud Khaled +1
Airborne pollen transport is a key concern for urban air-quality assessment, allergy-risk forecasting, and smart-city planning. However, conventional dispersion models generally as…
physics.flu-dyn2026
An Innovative Computational Fluid Dynamics Discrete Dipole Approximation (CFD-DDA) Platform for Predicting Airborne Virus-in-Saliva Disinfection by Ultraviolet Irradiation
Talib Dbouk, Maxim Yurkin
All published models of ultraviolet (UV) inactivation of airborne viruses in saliva droplets have neglected UV light scattering. To the best of our knowledge, this work presents th…
physics.flu-dyn2026
A Computational Fluid Dynamics MacroModel for the Design of Bed Adsorbers
Mohamad Najib Nadamani, Mostafa Safdari Shadloo, Talib Dbouk
A new three-dimensional (3D) multiphase computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model for adsorption physics in packed beds of spherical beads is developed and validated. The model is c…