Fluid Mechanics and Flight Mechanics

Overview of pathogen transmission in civil aircraft cabins

  • WANG Guangqiu ,
  • JI Shengcheng
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  • Beijing Aeronautical Research & Technology Institute of COMAC, Beijing 102211, China

Received date: 2015-05-04

  Revised date: 2015-06-05

  Online published: 2015-09-29

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National Natural Science Foundation of China (11402307)

Abstract

Indoor-cross infection of pathogen in relative enclosed environment has still been a concern since the SARS and recent cases of influenza spread with commercial international flights. It is proved that tuberculosis, smallpox, measles, SARS and seasonal influenza can be transmitted during commercial flights. The researchers investigate the pathogen transmission modes and transmission routes in civil aircraft cabins, as this is a key for developing relevant control strategies. These pathogen transmission modes and routes include direct contact transmission, indirection contact transmission and airborne transmission. A variety of methods can be utilized to investigate the pathogen cross-infection inside civil aircraft cabins, airborne transmission patterns and infection probability of passengers in economy class, first class and business class respectively. These methods mainly include experiments in laboratory, statistics methods and finally the computational fluid dynamics method. This paper basically presents the significance of the research on pathogen transmission civil aircraft cabins. And then it dedicates the research methods of pathogen transmission in civil aircraft cabins as well as the results and applications. Three different kinds of methods usually adopted are focused, including experiments in laboratory, statistics methods and finally the numerical simulations method. At the end of the paper, the discussions and conclusions are drawn.

Cite this article

WANG Guangqiu , JI Shengcheng . Overview of pathogen transmission in civil aircraft cabins[J]. ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA, 2015 , 36(8) : 2577 -2587 . DOI: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2015.0145

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