Colliding respiratory jets as a mechanism of air exchange and pathogen transport during conversat...

Colliding respiratory jets as a mechanism of air exchange and pathogen transport during conversations 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 Simon Mendez, Institut Montpellierain Alexander Grothendieck, CNRS, Univ. Montpellier Sandeep Saha, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Howard A. Stone, Princeton University DOI: As the restrictions imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic are being gradually relaxed and people are resuming their usual activities, the configuration of two unmasked individuals at proximity having a face-to-face conversation poses a risk of transferring a high dose of a pathogen from an infected person to a susceptible one. To study this airflow and exchange between two individuals, we conduct fog flow vi