Research activity information

• Mar. 2024 「富岳」成果創出加速シンポジウム研究交流会, Next Generation Researcher Award 2023, Designing a healthy and sustainable indoor environment in the post-pandemic era against viral infections


• 2018 4th International Conference on Building Energy and Environment COBEE, Women in STEM Best Paper Award

• Effects of free-stream turbulence on the evolution and modal organization of Görtler vortices

  Yujie Zhu, Chung-Gang Li, Alicia Murga, Rahul Bale, Chenguang Lai, Makoto Tsubokura

  2026


• Impact of Airflow Rate and Supply-Exhaust Configuration on Displacement Ventilation in Airborne Pathogen Removal

  Rahul Bale, Alicia Murga, Haruhiro Yamamoto, Makoto Tsubokura

  Sep. 2025, Sustainability

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• Ventilation strategies for inhalation exposure risk mitigation: Eulerian-Lagrangian LES analysis of particle-laden turbulent flow applying virtual manikins

  Alicia Murga, Rahul Bale, Kazuhide Ito, Makoto Tsubokura

  Dec. 2024, Building and Environment

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• Numerical Study of Indoor Oil Mist Particle Concentration Distribution in an Industrial Factory Using the Eulerian–Eulerian and Eulerian–Lagrangian Methods

  Yukun Wang, Jingnan Sun, Meng Zhao, Alicia Murga, Sung-Jun Yoo, Kazuhide Ito, Zhengwei Long

  Sep. 2023, Fluids

  Scientific journal


• Large eddy simulation of droplet transport and deposition in the human respiratory tract to evaluate inhalation risk

  Alicia Murga, Rahul Bale, Chung-Gang Li, Kazuhide Ito, Makoto Tsubokura

  Mar. 2023, PLOS Computational Biology

  Scientific journal

  Link to Kobe Univ. Repository (Kernel)


• Rethinking different ventilation strategies in a post-pandemic era: a CFD assessment

  Alicia Murga, Kazuhide Ito, Makoto Tsubokura

  2023, Proceedings of 43rd AIVC, 11th TightVent and 9th venticool Conference, 899 - 906, English

  Symposium


• Can Local Ventilation Reduce Fine Particles Dispersion Caused by a Coughing Patient in a Hospital Environment?

  Alicia Murga, Chung Gang Li, Rahul Bale, Hajime Fukudome, Saori Yumino, Ryotaro Yokono, Makoto Tsubokura

  2023, Environmental Science and Engineering, 2127 - 2136

  International conference proceedings


• Hybrid emergency ventilation system for controlling inhaled contaminant dose in the case of chemical leakage

  Shun Ichimiya, Alicia Murga, Sung-Jun Yoo, Eisaku Sumiyoshi, Hiroshi Harashima, Zhengwei Long, Kazuhide Ito

  {SAGE} Publications, Mar. 2022, Indoor and Built Environment

  Scientific journal


• Transient flow and particle deposition in the respiratory tract: RANS versus LES comparison

  Alicia Murga, Seigo Ohashi, Chung Gang Li, Rahul Bale, Makoto Tsubokura

  2022, 17th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate, INDOOR AIR 2022

  International conference proceedings


• Experimental study of oil mist characteristics generated from minimum quantity lubrication and flood cooling

  Yiwen Wang, Alicia Murga, Zhengwei Long, Sung Jun Yoo, Kazuhide Ito

  Jan. 2021, Energy and Built Environment, 2(1) (1), 45 - 55

  Scientific journal


• Decreasing inhaled contaminant dose of a factory worker through a hybrid Emergency Ventilation System: Performance evaluation in worst-case scenario

  Alicia Murga, Zhengwei Long, Sung-Jun Yoo, Eisaku Sumiyoshi, Kazuhide Ito

  Elsevier {BV}, Jul. 2020, Energy and Built Environment, 1(3) (3), 319 - 326, English

  Scientific journal


• Personal inhalation risk assessment based on a hybrid method using CFD-CSP-PBTK modelling: Quantification of time-Averaged and peak concentration differences

  Alicia Murga, Kazuki Kuga, Sung Jun Yoo, Kazuhide Ito

  Oct. 2019, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 609(4) (4)

  International conference proceedings


• Can the inhalation exposure of a specific worker in a cross-ventilated factory be evaluated by time- and spatial-averaged contaminant concentration?

  Murga, A., Kuga, K., Yoo, S.-J., Ito, K.

  2019, Environmental Pollution, 252

  Scientific journal


• Dynamic downscaling and hybrid CFD – transient network modelling analysis for estimating inhaled air quality

  Alicia Murga, Kazuhide Ito

  2018, Proceedings of 4th Int. Conf. on Building Energy and Environment, Melbourne, 481 - 486, English

  [Refereed]

  Symposium


• Estimation of diurnally-averaged inhalation exposure risk in a naturally cross-ventilated factory by NWP-CFD integrated analysis

  Alicia Murga, Kazuhide Ito

  2018, Proceedings of Roomvent&Ventilation: Excellent Indoor Climate and High Performing Ventilation, Espoo, 301 - 306, English

  [Refereed]

  Symposium


• Multi-stage downscaling procedure to analyse the impact of exposure concentration in a factory on a specific worker through computational fluid dynamics modelling

  Murga, A., Yoo, S.-J., Ito, K.

  2018, Indoor and Built Environment, 27(4) (4)

  Scientific journal


• Integrated analysis of numerical weather prediction and computational fluid dynamics for estimating cross-ventilation effects on inhaled air quality inside a factory

  Murga, A., Sano, Y., Kawamoto, Y., Ito, K.

  2017, Atmospheric Environment, 167

  Scientific journal


• Integration of numerical weather prediction and computational fluid dynamics to analyze indoor air quality: Part 2, prediction of contaminant concentration and inhalation exposure in a factory.

  Alicia Murga, Yusuke Sano, Yoichi Kawamoto, Kazuhide Ito

  2016, Proceedings of Int. Conf. on Healthy Buildings, Taiwan, (IM-1-3) (IM-1-3), 57 - 61

  Symposium


• Integration of numerical weather prediction and computational fluid dynamics to analyze indoor air quality: Part 1, prediction of wind pressure coefficient distributions

  Yusuke Sano, Alicia Murga, Yoichi Kawamoto, Kazuhide Ito

  2016, Proceedings of Int. Conf. on Healthy Buildings, Taiwan, (IM-1-3) (IM-1-3)

  Symposium


• Dynamic Downscaling analysis of air quality from urban to human scale: Part 1 Integration of WRF and CFD to predict wind pressure coefficient

  Yusuke Sano, Alicia Murga, Yoichi Kawamoto, Kazuhide Ito

  Corresponding, 2016, Proceedings of 14th Int. Conf. on Indoor Air Quality and Climate, Gent, (ID:722) (ID:722), English

  [Refereed]

  Symposium


• Dynamic Downscaling analysis of air quality from urban to human scale: Part 2 Exposure concentration in a large factory space

  Alicia Murga, Yusuke Sano, Yoichi Kawamoto, Kazuhide Ito

  2016, Proceedings of 14th Int. Conf. on Indoor Air Quality and Climate, Gent, (ID:721) (ID:721), English

  [Refereed]

  Symposium


• A multi-scale exposure concentration analysis in a large factory space using computational fluid dynamics technique

  Alicia Murga, Sung Jun Yoo, Kazuhide Ito

  2015, Proceedings - Healthy Buildings 2015 America: Innovation in a Time of Energy Uncertainty and Climate Adaptation, HB 2015, 2015-July, 543 - 546

  International conference proceedings