Airflow dynamics of human jets: sneezing and breathing - potential sources of infectious aerosols.

Natural human exhalation flows such as coughing, sneezing and breathing can be considered as 'jet-like' airflows in the sense that they are produced from a single source in a single exhalation effort, with a relatively symmetrical, conical geometry. Although coughing and sneezing have garn...

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Main Authors: Julian W Tang, Andre D Nicolle, Christian A Klettner, Jovan Pantelic, Liangde Wang, Amin Bin Suhaimi, Ashlynn Y L Tan, Garrett W X Ong, Ruikun Su, Chandra Sekhar, David D W Cheong, Kwok Wai Tham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3613375?pdf=render