Learning Incompressible Fluid Dynamics from Scratch--Towards Fast, Differentiable Fluid Models that Generalize

N Wandel, M Weinmann, R Klein - arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.08762, 2020 - arxiv.org
Fast and stable fluid simulations are an essential prerequisite for applications ranging from
computer-generated imagery to computer-aided design in research and development …

Teaching the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations to fast neural surrogate models in three dimensions

N Wandel, M Weinmann, R Klein - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Physically plausible fluid simulations play an important role in modern computer graphics
and engineering. However, in order to achieve real-time performance, computational speed …

[HTML][HTML] How coronavirus survives for hours in aerosols

S Chatterjee, JS Murallidharan, A Agrawal… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
COVID (CoronaVirus Disease)-19, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome-
CoronaVirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus, predominantly transmits via airborne route, as …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical simulations of the flow and aerosol dispersion in a violent expiratory event: Outcomes of the “2022 International Computational Fluid Dynamics …

J Pallares, A Fabregat, A Lavrinenko… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents and discusses the results of the “2022 International Computational Fluid
Dynamics Challenge on violent expiratory events” aimed at assessing the ability of different …

The effects of indoor temperature and humidity on local transmission of COVID-19 and how it relates to global trends

HJ Park, SG Lee, JS Oh, M Nam, S Barrett, S Lee… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
During the COVID-19 pandemic, analyses on global data have not reached unanimous
consensus on whether warmer and humid weather curbs the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 …

[HTML][HTML] Fluid mechanics of air recycling and filtration for indoor airborne transmission

KA Krishnaprasad, JS Salinas, N Zgheib… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We present a statistical framework to account for effects of recycling and filtration in
ventilation systems for the estimation of airborne droplet nuclei concentration in indoor …

[HTML][HTML] Towards realistic simulations of human cough: effect of droplet emission duration and spread angle

M Li, KL Chong, CS Ng, P Bahl, CM de Silva… - International journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Human respiratory events, such as coughing and sneezing, play an important role in the
host-to-host airborne transmission of diseases. Thus, there has been a substantial effort in …

Effectiveness of RANS in predicting indoor airborne viral transmission: A critical evaluation against LES

K Choudhary, KA Krishnaprasad, S Pandey, N Zgheib… - Computers & …, 2023 - Elsevier
We investigate the dispersal of droplet nuclei inside a canonical room of size 10× 10× 3. 2 m
3 with a four-way cassette air-conditioning unit placed at the center of the ceiling. We use …

Reducing virus transmission from heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems of urban subways

A Nazari, J Hong, F Taghizadeh-Hesary… - Toxics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Aerosols carrying the virus inside enclosed spaces is an important mode of transmission for
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), as supported by growing …

A model to predict the short-term turbulent indoor dispersion of small droplets and droplet nuclei released from coughs and sneezes

J Pallares, A Fabregat - Indoor and Built Environment, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
We propose a simple model to predict the short-term indoor turbulent dispersion of the
aerosol cloud produced by violent expiratory events. Once the air injection ceases, the …