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ArticleMeccanica2022

Transport and evaporation of virus-containing droplets exhaled by men and women in typical cough events.

Stefano Olivieri, Mattia Cavaiola, Andrea Mazzino, Marco E Rosti

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Article in Meccanica, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors.

Stefano OlivieriComplex Fluids and Flows Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, 1919-1 Tancha, Onna-son, Okinawa 904-0495 Japan.
Mattia CavaiolaINFN and Department of Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering (DICCA), University of Genova, Via Montallegro 1, 16145 Genova, Italy.
Andrea MazzinoINFN and Department of Civil, Chemical and Environmental Engineering (DICCA), University of Genova, Via Montallegro 1, 16145 Genova, Italy.
Marco E RostiComplex Fluids and Flows Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, 1919-1 Tancha, Onna-son, Okinawa 904-0495 Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-9004-2292

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The spreading of the virus-containing droplets exhaled during respiratory events, e.g., cough, is an issue of paramount importance for the prevention of many infections such as COVID-19. According to the scientific literature, remarkable differences can be ascribed to several parameters that govern such complex and multiphysical problem. Among these, a particular influence appears associated with the different airflows typical of male and female subjects. Focusing on a typical cough event, we investigate this aspect by means of highly-resolved direct numerical simulations of the turbulent airflow in combination with a comprehensive Lagrangian particle tracking model for the droplet motion and evaporation. We observe and quantify major differences between the case of male and female subjects, both in terms of the droplet final reach and evaporation time. Our results can be associated with the different characteristics in the released airflow and thus confirm the influence of the subject gender (or other physical properties providing different exhalation profiles) on both short-range and long-range airborne transmission.

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Airborne transmissionDirect numerical simulationVirus-containing droplets

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PMID35039689
PMCPMC8754081

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