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. 2020 Jan 7;17(2):380. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17020380

Table 4.

Literature on different turbulence modelling for airflow and particle transport

Author Anatomy Model Airflow Particle Transport and Deposition
Farkas et al. (2006); Zhang, Kleinstreuer, Donohue and Kim [109]; Longest and Vinchurkar, (2007); Zhang et al. (2005b) • Non-realistic
• Weibel’s Model
• Low Reynolds Number (LRN) k-ω turbulence model
Longest et al. (2016);
Xi and Longest [62]; Tian et al. 2015 *
• Realistic
 Asymmetric
• LRN k-ω turbulence model
Tian et al. (2017); Farhadi Ghalati et al. (2012); Sohrabi et al. (2017) • CT-Realistic • Laminar
Farkas and Balásházy, (2007); Farkas and Balásházy, (2008); Balásházy et al. (2003); Liu et al. (2002); Longest and Vinchurkar, (2009); Balásházy and Hofmann, (1993); Zhang et al. (2002); Liu et al. (2003a); Nowak, Kakade and Annapragada [72] • Non-realistic • Laminar
Pourmehran, Rahimi-Gorji, Gorji-Bandpy and Gorji [27]; [27,70] **; Sandeau, Katz, Fodil, Louis, Apiou-Sbirlea, Caillibotte and Isabey [37] • CT-Realistic • SST k-ω model
Yousefi et al. [14];
Liu et al. (2007)
• CT-Realistic • RANS k-ω turbulence method
Zhang et al. (2004); Matida et al. (2004); • Idealized • RANS k-ω turbulence model
[45,58,106] • Idealized • k–ε turbulence model
Aasgrav et al. (2017); Shih et al. (1995) ** • Realistic • k-ε turbulence model
Bernate, Geisler, Padhy, Shaqfeh and Iaccarino [66] **; Cui and Gutheil [64]; Jin, Fan, Zeng and Cen [65]; Gemci, Ponyavin, Chen, Chen and Collins [63] **; Islam, Saha, Sauret, Gemci and Gu [92] • Realistic
• Non-realistic
• LES Turbulence Model

* No airflow; ** No particle transport and deposition.