Host-to-host airborne transmission as a multiphase flow problem for science-based social distance guidelines

• Published in: International journal of multiphase flow Vol. 132; p. 103439
• Main Authors: Balachandar, S., Zaleski, S., Soldati, A., Ahmadi, G., Bourouiba, L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.11.2020; Elsevier
• Subjects: Aerosol inhalation; Airborne transmission; Analysis of PDEs; Biomechanics; Chaotic Dynamics; Chemical and Process Engineering; Classical Physics; Computer Science; Condensed Matter; Coughing; Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing; Droplet evaporation; Droplet nuclei; Engineering Sciences; Filtration efficiency of mask; Fluid Dynamics; Fluids mechanics; Mathematics; Mechanics; Modeling and Simulation; Nonlinear Sciences; Numerical Analysis; Physics; Reactive fluid environment; Sneezing; Soft Condensed Matter; Sneezing; Filtration efficiency of mask; Droplet evaporation; Coughing; Airborne transmission; Aerosol inhalation; Droplet nuclei

The COVID-19 pandemic has strikingly demonstrated how important it is to develop fundamental knowledge related to the generation, transport and inhalation of pathogen-laden droplets and their subsequent possible fate as airborne particles, or aerosols, in the context of human to human transmission....