Covid 19 flows:

Fundamentals and Practical Recommendations

Organizers

• Mikhael Gorokhovski (LMFA, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France)
• Carlo Massimo Casciola (La Sapienza Università, Rome, Italy)

Friday 5 March 2021

On 5th March 2021 at 02:00 PM (Paris time), the ERCOFTAC Pilot Center Henri Bénard has organized its third zoom-meeting on “COVID19 Flows: Fundamentals and Practical Recommendations”. The main points in two invited lectures include the characterization of respiratory sprays (formation, ejection, turbulent fluid and thermal dynamics), and the impact of different masks on the flow physics.

Invited speakers

• Professor Detlef Lohse, University of Twente
• Professor Christian Kähler, Bundeswehr University Munich

Program

• 14:00 - 15:00 Extended lifetime of respiratory droplets in a turbulent vapor puff and its implications on airborne disease transmission
  Professor Detlef LOHSE
  Physics of Fluids Group, University of Twente, Netherlands
  

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This is joint work with Kai Leong Chong, Chong Shen Ng, Naoki Hori, Morgan Li, Rui Yang, and Roberto Verzicco.

• 15:00 - 16:00 How to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infections via droplets and aerosols
  Professor Christian J. KÄHLER
  Institute for Fluid Mechanics and Aerodynamics, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany
  

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Thanks

Thanks to Yves JEGOU from the audiovisual team of the Information System Division of the École Centrale de Lyon for the postprocessing of the Zoom captations.