Topic：Aerosol Transport and Dynamics in the Atmosphere and Human Airways
Speaker：Chen, Wei-Hsin Distinguished Professor
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, NCKU.
Time：March 03, 2022 1:30-3:00 pm
Venue：Lecture Hall Ⅳ at College of Medicine
Abstract：
Aerosols are suspended solid and liquid particles in air, which may cause serious air pollution problems and thereby endanger human health. In this talk, acid fog and acid rain formations, stemming from acidic gas uptake by atmospheric water drops and droplets, will be analyzed numerically and introduced in detail to uncover the gaseous pollutant absorption dynamics. Meanwhile, particulate matter deposition behaviors, especially for PM2.5, in healthy and unhealthy human airways, such as asthmatic and COPD patients, under different breathing conditions will be analyzed and illustrated to figure out the aerosol transport phenomena. The analyzed results are conducive to the strategies adopted to reduce environmental health threats caused by air pollution.