Abstract
Human movement affects indoor airflow and the airborne transmission of respiratory infectious diseases, which has attracted scholars. However, the interactive airflow between moving and stationary people has yet to be studied in detail. This study used the numerical method validated by experimental data to explore the transient indoor airflow and virus-laden droplet dispersion in scenes with interactive human movement. Human-shaped numerical models and the dynamic mesh method were adopted to realize human movement in scenes with different lateral distances (0.2–1.2 m) between a moving person and stationary (standing/sitting) persons. The interactive human movement obviously impacts other persons' respiratory airflow, and the lateral fusion ranged about 0.6 m. The interactive human movement strengthens the indoor airflow convection, and some exhaled virus-laden droplets were carried into wake flow and enhanced long-range airborne transmission. The impact of interactive human movement on sitting patients' exhalation airflow seems more evident than on standing patients. The impact might last over 2 min after movement stopped, and people in the affected area might be at a higher exposure. The results can provide a reference for epidemic control in indoor environments.
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