Recent trends in carbon nanotube (CNT)-based biosensors for the fast and sensitive detection of human viruses: a critical review

H Meskher, HC Mustansar, AK Thakur… - Nanoscale …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The current COVID-19 pandemic, with its numerous variants including Omicron which is 50–
70% more transmissible than the previously dominant Delta variant, demands a fast, robust …

[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 …

COVID-19 spread in a classroom equipped with partition–A CFD approach

M Mirzaie, E Lakzian, A Khan, ME Warkiani… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, the motion and distribution of droplets containing coronaviruses emitted by
coughing of an infected person in front of a classroom (eg, a teacher) were investigated …

Extended lifetime of respiratory droplets in a turbulent vapor puff and its implications on airborne disease transmission

KL Chong, CS Ng, N Hori, R Yang, R Verzicco… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
To quantify the fate of respiratory droplets under different ambient relative humidities, direct
numerical simulations of a typical respiratory event are performed. We found that, because …

Prediction of the spread of Corona-virus carrying droplets in a bus-A computational based artificial intelligence approach

M Mesgarpour, JMN Abad, R Alizadeh… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Public transport has been identified as high risk as the corona-virus carrying droplets
generated by the infected passengers could be distributed to other passengers. Therefore …

A review on the transmission of COVID-19 based on cough/sneeze/breath flows

M El Hassan, H Assoum, N Bukharin… - … Physical Journal Plus, 2022 - epjplus.epj.org
COVID-19 pandemic has recently had a dramatic impact on society. The understanding of
the disease transmission is of high importance to limit its spread between humans. The …

[HTML][HTML] Direct numerical simulation of the turbulent flow generated during a violent expiratory event

A Fabregat, F Gisbert, A Vernet, S Dutta, K Mittal… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
A main route for SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus) transmission
involves airborne droplets and aerosols generated when a person talks, coughs, or …

Investigating the effect of air conditioning on the distribution and transmission of COVID-19 virus particles

M Ahmadzadeh, E Farokhi, M Shams - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
The effect of indoor airflow has been confirmed on the diffusion and transmission of droplets
generated when talking or sneezing by a person with a viral respiratory infection such as …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting the effects of environmental parameters on the spatio-temporal distribution of the droplets carrying coronavirus in public transport–A machine …

M Mesgarpour, JMN Abad, R Alizadeh… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Human-generated droplets constitute the main route for the transmission of coronavirus.
However, the details of such transmission in enclosed environments are yet to be …

Growth of respiratory droplets in cold and humid air

CS Ng, KL Chong, R Yang, M Li, R Verzicco, D Lohse - Physical Review Fluids, 2021 - APS
The ambient conditions surrounding liquid droplets determine their growth or shrinkage.
However, the precise fate of a liquid droplet expelled from a respiratory puff as dictated by its …