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ArticleScientific reports2024

Wind velocity and dispersion/advection-diffusion of artificial droplets and droplet nuclei in a domed all-weather multi-purpose stadium.

Naohide Shinohara, Noboru Kurihara, Wataru Naito, Aya Iwai, Tetsuo Yasutaka, Toshihiro Morioka, Toshiyuki Takatsuji, Masayuki Ogata, Koichi Tatsu

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Naohide ShinoharaNational Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Research Institute of Science for Safety and Sustainability (RISS), 16-1 Onogawa, Tsukuba-City, Ibaraki, 305-8569, Japan. n-shinohara@aist.go.jp.
Noboru KuriharaNational Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), National Metrology Institute of Japan (NMIJ), 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba-City, Ibaraki, 305-8563, Japan.
Wataru NaitoNational Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Research Institute of Science for Safety and Sustainability (RISS), 16-1 Onogawa, Tsukuba-City, Ibaraki, 305-8569, Japan.
Aya IwaiNational Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), National Metrology Institute of Japan (NMIJ), 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba-City, Ibaraki, 305-8563, Japan.
Tetsuo YasutakaNational Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Geological survey of Japan, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba-City, Ibaraki, 305-8567, Japan.
Toshihiro MoriokaNational Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), National Metrology Institute of Japan (NMIJ), 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba-City, Ibaraki, 305-8563, Japan.
Toshiyuki TakatsujiNational Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), National Metrology Institute of Japan (NMIJ), 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba-City, Ibaraki, 305-8563, Japan.
Masayuki OgataTokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1 Minami-Osawa, Hachioji-City, Tokyo, 192-0397, Japan.
Koichi TatsuNational Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Research Institute of Science for Safety and Sustainability (RISS), 16-1 Onogawa, Tsukuba-City, Ibaraki, 305-8569, Japan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To evaluate the COVID-19 infection risk and the effectiveness of countermeasures at mass-gathering events, we measured the dispersion and advective diffusion of artificial droplets and artificial droplet nuclei at the Tokyo Dome, Japan (capacity 55,000 people). We also measured and evaluated the effectiveness of wearing masks and increasing the space between seating areas. If people were seated facing forward, artificial droplets did not reach the mouths of surrounding people, suggesting low risk of droplet transmission. For an artificially generated cough or sneeze, the volume of droplets deposited on the hair, back of the neck, and back of the human in front, and the backs of the seats in front, decreased by two to three orders of magnitude when a mask was worn, regardless of the type of mask. However, when the mask was worn with the nose out, the amount deposited on the back of the seat in front was reduced by only 17%. Even in seats with the highest particle concentration in the vicinity of the source, only 0.097%-0.24% of the generated droplet nuclei (1.0-3.0 μm) from the source were inhaled. Our results suggest that the infection risk at the Tokyo Dome via droplet and airborne transmission was low.

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Coronavirus infection 2019 (COVID-19)Cough simulatorFace maskInfection riskMass-gathering events (MGEs)Transmission risk

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