[HTML][HTML] Fluid dynamics simulations show that facial masks can suppress the spread of COVID-19 in indoor environments

A Khosronejad, C Santoni, K Flora, Z Zhang, S Kang… - Aip Advances, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The coronavirus disease outbreak of 2019 has been causing significant loss of life and
unprecedented economic loss throughout the world. Social distancing and face masks are …

[HTML][HTML] A computational study of expiratory particle transport and vortex dynamics during breathing with and without face masks

A Khosronejad, S Kang, F Wermelinger… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We present high-fidelity numerical simulations of expiratory biosol transport during normal
breathing under indoor, stagnant air conditions with and without a facile mask. We …

Lagrangian dynamics of particle transport in oral and nasal breathing

H Seyedzadeh, W Oaks, J Craig, M Aksen, MS Sanz… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We present a large-eddy simulation (LES) of saliva particle transport during normal human
breathing through the nose and mouth. The flow of the air–saliva mixture is modeled using …

A comprehensive picture for binary interactions of subaqueous barchans

WR Assis, EM Franklin - Geophysical Research Letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate experimentally the short‐range interactions occurring between two
subaqueous barchans. The experiments were conducted in a water channel of transparent …

Three‐dimensional flow above river bedforms: Insights from numerical modeling of a natural dune field (Río Paraná, Argentina)

A Lefebvre - Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Bedforms are ubiquitous features in rivers and shallow seas, as mobile sediment is
transported by flowing water. The mutual interaction of hydrodynamics and bedform has …

Effect of inlet turbulent boundary conditions on scour predictions of coupled LES and morphodynamics in a field-scale river: Bankfull flow conditions

A Khosronejad, K Flora, S Kang - Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
This paper presents a systematic numerical investigation to study the effects of inlet turbulent
boundary conditions on the coupled hydrodynamics and morphodynamics computations of …

Fluvial instabilities

S Dey, SZ Ali - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Fluvial instabilities originate from an interplay between the carrier fluid and the erodible
loose boundary at their interface, manifesting a variety of sedimentary architectures with …

Temporal evolution of dune number density in a barchan dune field

X Xiao, H Liu, X Zheng - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The present work examines the temporal evolution of dune number density in desert
barchan dune fields and the effects of wind velocity, particle diameter and sand supply …

On the morphodynamics of a wide class of large‐scale meandering rivers: insights gained by coupling LES with sediment‐dynamics

A Khosronejad, AB Limaye, Z Zhang… - Journal of Advances …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In meandering rivers, interactions between flow, sediment transport, and bed topography
affect diverse processes, including bedform development and channel migration. Predicting …

[HTML][HTML] On the Lagrangian dynamics of saliva particles during normal mouth breathing

WR Oaks, J Craig, C Duran, F Sotiropoulos… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The flow and saliva particulate transport dynamics during normal human breathing through
the mouth are simulated numerically using an Eulerian large-eddy simulation (LES) …