Direct numerical simulation of a moist cough flow using Eulerian approximation for liquid droplets

DOI10.1080/10618562.2022.2057479MaRDI QIDQ5080263zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Rohit Singhal, S. Ravichandran, Sourabh S. Diwan

Publication date 31 May 2022

Published in International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01875

zbMATH Keywords

COVID-19incompressible Navier-Stokes equationsfinite volume solver Megha-5liquid field approximationlong-range pathogen transmissionphase change thermodynamicsrespiratory droplet

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Epidemiology (92D30) Liquid-gas two-phase flows, bubbly flows (76T10) Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Stefan problems, phase changes, etc. (80A22) Finite volume methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M12)

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has inspired several studies on the fluid dynamics of respiratory events. Here, we propose a computational approach in which respiratory droplets are coarse-grained into an Eulerian liquid field advected by the fluid streamlines. A direct numerical simulation is carried out for a moist cough using a closure model for space-time dependence of the evaporation time scale. Estimates of the Stokes number are provided, for the initial droplet size of $10mu$m, which are found to be <<1 thereby justifying the neglect of droplet inertia. Several of the important features of the moist-cough flow reported in the literature using Lagrangian tracking methods have been accurately captured using our scheme. Some new results are presented, including the evaporation time for a "mild" cough, a saturation-temperature diagram and a favourable correlation between the vorticity and liquid fields. The present approach is particularly useful for studying the long-range transmission of virus-laden droplets.

Recommendations

• On shear layer atomization within closed channels: numerical simulations of a cough-replicating experiment
• A case study on pathogen transport, deposition, evaporation and transmission: linking high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics simulations to probability of infection
• A note on the stability characteristics of the respiratory events
• Modeling and simulation of the infection zone from a cough
• Special issue: CFD and COVID-19

Cites work

• DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION: A Tool in Turbulence Research
• Equation of motion for a small rigid sphere in a nonuniform flow
• Mammatus cloud formation by settling and evaporation
• Minimal models for precipitating turbulent convection
• On the development of spray submodels based on droplet size moments.
• Self-similar clustering of inertial particles in homogeneous turbulence
• The flow physics of COVID-19
• The fluid dynamics of disease transmission
• Transient convective spin-up dynamics

Cited in

(5)

• A case study on pathogen transport, deposition, evaporation and transmission: linking high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics simulations to probability of infection
• On shear layer atomization within closed channels: numerical simulations of a cough-replicating experiment
• Effects of physical property changes of expelled respiratory liquid on atomization morphology
• Modeling and simulation of the infection zone from a cough
• A note on the stability characteristics of the respiratory events

This page was built for publication: Direct numerical simulation of a moist cough flow using Eulerian approximation for liquid droplets

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q5080263)