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Physics of Respiratory Droplets and Their Role in Disease Transmission

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Presentations

  • Stability of Respiratory-Like Droplets under Evaporation

    ORAL

    Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.09175

    Presenters

    • Javier Rodriguez-Rodriguez

      Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain

    Authors

    • Javier Rodriguez-Rodriguez

      Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain

    • Carola Seyfert

      Univ of Twente

    • Detlef Lohse

      University of Twente

    • Alvaro Marin

      Physics of Fluids, University of Twente

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  • TBD

    ORAL · Invited

    Presenters

    • Jiaxing Huang

      Northwestern University

    Authors

    • Jiaxing Huang

      Northwestern University

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  • Ballistic respiratory droplets impacting on facemasks: an overview

    ORAL

    Publication: On secondary atomization and blockage of surrogate cough droplets in single- and multilayer face masks.Science Advances, 7(10), 2021<br>Penetration and secondary atomization of droplets impacted on wet facemasks, Physical Review Fluids (under review)

    Presenters

    • Abhishek Saha

      University of California, San Diego

    Authors

    • Abhishek Saha

      University of California, San Diego

    • Shubham Sharma

      Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

    • Sombuddha Bagchi

      University of California, San Diego

    • Swetaprovo Chaudhuri

      University of toronto, University of Toronto

    • Saptarshi Basu

      Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, India, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India

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  • Quantifying the effect of a mask on expiratory flows

    ORAL

    Publication: P. Bourrianne, N. Xue, J. Nunes, M. Abkarian and H. A. Stone, Quantifying the effect of a mask on expiratory flows, Phys. Rev. Fluids (accepted).

    Presenters

    • Philippe Bourrianne

      Princeton University

    Authors

    • Philippe Bourrianne

      Princeton University

    • Nan Xue

      Princeton University

    • Janine Nunes

      Princeton University

    • Manouk Abkarian

      Centre de Biochimie Structurale, CNRS UMR 5048-INSERM UMR 1054, University of Montpellier, 34090 Montpellier, France, CNRS, Université de Montpellier

    • Howard A Stone

      Princeton, Princeton University

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  • Pathogen transport and air exchange during short conversations

    ORAL

    Publication: Arghyanir Giri, Neelakash Biswas, Danielle L. Chase,Nan Xue, Manouk Abkarian, Simon Mendez , <br>Sandeep Saha, Howard A. Stone, Colliding respiratory jets as a mechanism of air exchange and pathogen transport during conversations, JFM Rapids 2021 in press

    Presenters

    • Arghyanir Giri

      Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

    Authors

    • Arghyanir Giri

      Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

    • Neelakash Biswas

      Imperial College London

    • Danielle L. Chase

      Princeton University

    • Nan Xue

      Princeton University

    • Manouk Abkarian

      Centre de Biochimie Structurale, CNRS UMR 5048-INSERM UMR 1054, University of Montpellier, 34090 Montpellier, France, CNRS, Université de Montpellier

    • Simon Mendez

      Institut Montpellierain Alexander Grothendieck, CNRS, Univ. Montpellier, 34095 Montpellier, France

    • Sandeep Saha

      Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

    • Howard A Stone

      Princeton, Princeton University

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  • COVID-19 and other respiratory disease transmission during oxygen-therapy

    ORAL

    Publication: 1: Arshad Kudrolli, Brian Chang, Jade Consalvi, Anton Deti, Christopher Frechette, Helen Scoville, Geoffrey R. Sheinfeld, and William T. McGee , "Mitigating exhalation puffs during oxygen therapy for respiratory disease", Physics of Fluids 33, 081903 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0057227. <br><br>2: Brian Chang, Ram Sudhir Sharma, Trinh Huynh, and Arshad Kudrolli, "Aerial mucosalivary droplet dispersal distributions with implications for disease mitigation", Phys. Rev. Research 2, 043391 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.043391.

    Presenters

    • Arshad A Kudrolli

      Clark University

    Authors

    • Arshad A Kudrolli

      Clark University

    • William T McGee

      University of Massachusetts Medical School- Baystate

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  • The abundance of speech-generated droplets and the role of masks in curbing airborne transmission of disease

    ORAL · Invited

    Publication: 1). "Visualizing Speech-Generated Oral Fluid Droplets with Laser Light Scattering," Philip Anfinrud, Valentyn Stadnytskyi, Christina E Bax, Adriaan Bax, N Engl J Med, 382, 2061-2063 (2020). doi.org/10.1056/NEJMc2007800.<br>2). "The airborne lifetime of small speech droplets and their potential importance in SARS-CoV-2 transmission," Adriaan Bax, Christina E. Bax, Valentyn Stadnytskyi, and Philip Anfinrud, PNAS 117, 11875-11877 (2020). doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2006874117<br>3). "SARS-CoV-2 transmission via speech-generated respiratory droplets," Philip Anfinrud, Valentyn Stadnytskyi, Christina E Bax, Adriaan Bax, The Lancet, 21, 318 (2021). doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30726-X<br>4). "Breathing, speaking, coughing or sneezing: What drives transmission of SARS-CoV-2?" V. Stadnytskyi, P. Anfinrud, A. Bax, Journal of Internal Medicine, (2021). doi.org/10.1111/joim.13326

    Presenters

    • Philip Anfinrud

      National Institutes of Health

    Authors

    • Philip Anfinrud

      National Institutes of Health

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