A numerical cough machine

arXiv2101.05662MaRDI QIDQ6358294FDOQ6358294

Authors: César I. Pairetti, Raphaël Villiers, Stéphane Zaleski 

Publication date: 14 January 2021

Abstract: We introduce a simplified model of physiological coughing or sneezing, in the form of a thin liquid layer subject to a rapid (30 m/s) air stream. The setup is simulated using the Volume-Of-Fluid method with octree mesh adaptation, the latter allowing grid sizes small enough to capture the Kolmogorov length scale. The results confirm the trend to an intermediate distribution between a Log-Normal and a Pareto distribution $P(d)propto{d}^{-3.3}$ for the distribution of droplet sizes in agreement with a previous re-analysis of experimental results by one of the authors. The mechanism of atomisation does not differ qualitatively from the multiphase mixing layer experiments and simulations. No mechanism for a bimodal distribution, also sometimes observed, is evidenced in these simulations.

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