The physics of respiratory particle generation, fate in the air, and inhalation

L Morawska, G Buonanno, A Mikszewski… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Given that breathing is one of the most fundamental physiological functions, there is an
urgent need to broaden our understanding of the fluid dynamics that governs it. There would …

Respiratory aerosols and droplets in the transmission of infectious diseases

ML Pöhlker, C Pöhlker, OO Krüger, JD Förster… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
Knowing the physicochemical properties of exhaled droplets and aerosol particles is a
prerequisite for a detailed mechanistic understanding and effective prevention of the …

Modes of transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) and factors influencing on the airborne transmission: A review

M Delikhoon, MI Guzman, R Nabizadeh… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The multiple modes of SARS-CoV-2 transmission including airborne, droplet, contact, and
fecal–oral transmissions that cause coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) contribute to a …

Short-range exposure to airborne virus transmission and current guidelines

J Wang, M Alipour, G Soligo, A Roccon… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - pnas.org
After the Spanish flu pandemic, it was apparent that airborne transmission was crucial to
spreading virus contagion, and research responded by producing several fundamental …

Simulation of flow and debris migration in extreme ultraviolet source vessel

WS Meng, CB Zhao, JZ Wu, BF Wang, Q Zhou… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Practical extreme ultraviolet (EUV) sources yield the desired 13.5 nm radiation but also
generate debris, significantly limiting the lifespan of the collector mirror in lithography. In this …

Numerical study on the onset of global-scale flow from individual buoyant plumes: Implications for indoor disease transmission

CB Zhao, JZ Wu, BF Wang, T Chang, Q Zhou… - Physics of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Transport of exhaled droplets and aerosol suspension is a main route for the transmission of
highly infectious respiratory diseases. A poorly ventilated room, where human body heat …

Analytical challenges when sampling and characterising exhaled aerosol

FKA Gregson, S Sheikh, J Archer… - Aerosol Science and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Respiratory particles produced by breathing, coughing, and speaking or generated during
medical procedures serve as important routes for disease transmission. Characterizing the …

Prediction of respiratory droplets evolution for safer academic facilities planning amid COVID-19 and future pandemics: A numerical approach

JJ Quinones, A Doosttalab, S Sokolowski… - Journal of Building …, 2022 - Elsevier
Airborne dispersion of the novel SARS-CoV-2 through the droplets produced during
expiratory activities is one of the main transmission mechanisms of this virus from one …

[HTML][HTML] Risk assessment of COVID infection by respiratory droplets from cough for various ventilation scenarios inside an elevator: An OpenFOAM-based …

R Biswas, A Pal, R Pal, S Sarkar, A Mukhopadhyay - Physics of fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Respiratory droplets—which may contain disease spreading virus—exhaled during
speaking, coughing, or sneezing are one of the significant causes for the spread of the …

[HTML][HTML] An efficient phase-field method for turbulent multiphase flows

HR Liu, CS Ng, KL Chong, D Lohse… - Journal of computational …, 2021 - Elsevier
With the aim of efficiently simulating three-dimensional multiphase turbulent flows with a
phase-field method, we propose a new discretization scheme for the biharmonic term (the …