[HTML][HTML] Fluid mechanics of air recycling and filtration for indoor airborne transmission

KA Krishnaprasad, JS Salinas, N Zgheib… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We present a statistical framework to account for effects of recycling and filtration in
ventilation systems for the estimation of airborne droplet nuclei concentration in indoor …

Assigning macromolecular meaning to nonlinear continuum rheology

P Poungthong, AJ Giacomin - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The Oldroyd 8-constant continuum framework has yielded elegant analytical solutions for
many polymer processing flows. However, continuum frameworks are silent on …

Stress relaxation following sudden cessation of steady shearing from polymer rotarance theory

MC Pak, AJ Giacomin, MA Kanso - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Deriving rheological material functions from rotarance theory proceeds in two steps. We first
solve the general diffusion equation to get the polymer orientation distribution, then we …

Coronavirus peplomer charge heterogeneity

V Chaurasia, MA Kanso, E Fried, AJ Giacomin - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Recent advancements in viral hydrodynamics afford the calculation of the transport
properties of particle suspensions from first principles, namely, from the detailed particle …

RECENT ADVANCES IN POLYMER VISCOELASTICITY FROM GENERAL RIGID BEAD-ROD THEORY

AJ Giacomin, M Kanso - indico.cern.ch
One good way to explain the elasticity of a polymeric liquid, is to just consider the orientation
distribution of the macromolecules. When exploring how macromolecular architecture affects …