Alvin C.K. Lai

Overview

Best Publications

• Modeling Indoor Particle Deposition from Turbulent Flow onto Smooth Surfaces

  Alvin C. K. Lai;William W. Nazaroff

  816
  Citations

• Indoor Particulate Matter of Outdoor Origin: Importance of Size-Dependent Removal Mechanisms

  William J. Riley;Thomas E. McKone;and Alvin C. K. Lai;William W. Nazaroff

  526
  Citations

• Effects of room furnishings and air speed on particle deposition rates indoors

  Tracy L. Thatcher;Alvin C.K. Lai;Rosa Moreno-Jackson;Richard G. Sextro

  480
  Citations

• Modeling particle distribution and deposition in indoor environments with a new drift–flux model

  Fangzhi Chen;Simon C.M. Yu;Alvin C.K. Lai

  394
  Citations

• Review of analytical models for heat transfer by vertical ground heat exchangers (GHEs): A perspective of time and space scales

  Min Li;Alvin C.K. Lai

  358
  Citations

• An evaluation model for indoor environmental quality (IEQ) acceptance in residential buildings

  A. C.K. Lai;Kwok Wai Mui;Ling Tim Wong;L. Y. Law

  346
  Citations

• Particle deposition indoors: a review

  A. C. K. Lai

  333
  Citations

• New temperature response functions (G functions) for pile and borehole ground heat exchangers based on composite-medium line-source theory

  Min Li;Alvin C.K. Lai

  234
  Citations

• Particle deposition indoors: a review.

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  230
  Citations

• Effectiveness of facemasks to reduce exposure hazards for airborne infections among general populations

  A. C. K. Lai;C. K. M. Poon;A. C. T. Cheung

  193
  Citations

• Inhalation transfer factors for air pollution health risk assessment.

  Alvin C.K. Lai;Tracy L. Thatcher;William W. Nazaroff;William W. Nazaroff

  161
  Citations

• Heat-source solutions to heat conduction in anisotropic media with application to pile and borehole ground heat exchangers

  Min Li;Alvin C.K. Lai

  151
  Citations

• Analytical model for short-time responses of ground heat exchangers with U-shaped tubes: Model development and validation

  Min Li;Alvin C.K. Lai

  140
  Citations

• An improved model for predicting performance of finned tube heat exchanger under frosting condition, with frost thickness variation along fin

  C.P. Tso;Y.C. Cheng;A.C.K. Lai

  138
  Citations

• Comparison of a new Eulerian model with a modified Lagrangian approach for particle distribution and deposition indoors

  Alvin C.K. Lai;F.Z. Chen

  122
  Citations

• Modeling particle deposition and distribution in a chamber with a two-equation Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes model

  Alvin C.K. Lai;Fangzhi Chen

  117
  Citations

• Full-scale temperature response function (G-function) for heat transfer by borehole ground heat exchangers (GHEs) from sub-hour to decades

  Min Li;Ping Li;Vincent Chan;Alvin C.K. Lai

  109
  Citations

• Numerical modeling of exhaled droplet nuclei dispersion and mixing in indoor environments.

  Kwok Wai Mui;Ling Tim Wong;C. L. Wu;Alvin C K Lai

  103
  Citations

• Thermodynamic optimization of ground heat exchangers with single U-tube by entropy generation minimization method

  Min Li;Alvin C.K. Lai

  102
  Citations

• Parameter estimation of in-situ thermal response tests for borehole ground heat exchangers

  Min Li;Alvin C.K. Lai

  99
  Citations

• Supermicron particle deposition from turbulent chamber flow onto smooth and rough vertical surfaces

  A.C.K. Lai;W.W. Nazaroff

  91
  Citations