Researcher: Eriko Nambu
Affiliation: Osaka University Dental Hospital Division for Medical Informatics(Division for Oral Dental Informatics)
In dental practice, instruments such as turbines, which are used for cutting teeth, can cause droplets containing the patient's saliva to scatter. Therefore, proper ventilation is necessary to ensure that the air containing these droplets does not remain stagnant for long periods. This study focuses on a private dental treatment room and visualizes the air stagnation using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation and the air age evaluation metric. We compare scenarios of natural ventilation, where only doors and windows are open, with scenarios where air conditioning and HEPA filter-equipped air purifiers are used. Typically, running a single simulation requires a significant amount of time. However, by using the SQUID supercomputer, we were able to execute the simulations in a much shorter timeframe.
Posted : June 26,2024