[HTML][HTML] Fluid dynamics of respiratory droplets in the context of COVID-19: Airborne and surfaceborne transmissions

P Katre, S Banerjee, S Balusamy, KC Sahu - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The World Health Organization has declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Several
countries have experienced repeated periods of major spreading over the last two years …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying airborne transmission in ventilated settings: A review

A Giri, C García-Sánchez, PM Bluyssen - Building and Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
As mandatory masking and social distancing measures decrease post-COVID-19, the risk of
airborne pathogen transmission in crowded indoor spaces remains a significant public …

Quantifying the COVID19 infection risk due to droplet/aerosol inhalation

R Bale, A Iida, M Yamakawa, CG Li, M Tsubokura - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
The dose-response model has been widely used for quantifying the risk of infection of
airborne diseases like COVID-19. The model has been used in the room-average analysis …

Colliding respiratory jets as a mechanism of air exchange and pathogen transport during conversations

A Giri, N Biswas, DL Chase, N Xue… - Journal of Fluid …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Air exchange between people has emerged in the COVID-19 pandemic as the important
vector for transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. We study the airflow and exchange …

A computational fluid dynamics—Population balance equation approach for evaporating cough droplets transport

Y Feng, D Li, D Marchisio, M Vanni, A Buffo - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Airborne diseases, including COVID-19, are transmitted by respiratory droplets,
which makes the study of the evolution of these droplets important to control the …

From Microscopic Droplets to Macroscopic Crowds: Crossing the Scales in Models of Short‐Range Respiratory Disease Transmission, with Application to COVID‐19

S Mendez, W Garcia, A Nicolas - Advanced Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Short‐range exposure to airborne virus‐laden respiratory droplets is an effective
transmission route of respiratory diseases, as exemplified by Coronavirus Disease 2019 …

Comparing respiratory aerosol emissions between children and adults during sustained phonation

MS Rawat, M Agirsoy, D Senarathna… - Aerosol Science and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Respiratory aerosols arise due to bronchial fluid film bursting within the pulmonary tract, the
vibration of the vocal folds during phonation, and articulation of the tongue/lips/teeth. We …

Influence of two-dimensional expiratory airflow variations on respiratory particle propagation during pronunciation of the fricative [f]

AA Mofakham, BT Helenbrook, BD Erath… - Journal of Aerosol …, 2023 - Elsevier
Propagation of respiratory particles, potentially containing viable viruses, plays a significant
role in the transmission of respiratory diseases (eg, COVID-19) from infected people …

Transport of condensing droplets in Taylor-Green vortex flow in the presence of thermal noise

AVS Nath, A Roy, R Govindarajan, S Ravichandran - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
We study the role of phase change and thermal noise in particle transport in turbulent flows.
We employ a toy model to extract the main physics: Condensing droplets are modelled as …

On the variation of fricative airflow dynamics with vocal tract geometry and speech loudness

AA Mofakham, BT Helenbrook, BD Erath… - Aerosol Science and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Recent studies have determined that the number of respiratory droplets expelled during a
short duration of speech can be comparable to that of a cough. Although speaking is …