It is a follow up to the successful zoom meeting organised by ERCOFTAC Pilot Center Henri Benard on the subject of “How much do we know and how much we don't know about the Covid-19 Flow Physics” which took place on the 13th November 2020. Although we trust the recent Covid-19 vaccine to turn our lives to normal, the need to understand pathways of air-born transmission of infection remains acute. The warning sign below due to S. Balachandar, S. Zaleski, A. Soldati, G. Ahmadi, and L. Bourouiba (Int. J. Multiphase Flow, 132, 103439, 2020) calls our permanent attention:
13:30 - 14:30
Dispersal of Small Airborne Aerosols in Buildings
Professor Andy Woods,
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
14:30 - 15:30
A Summary of Numerical and Experimental Evaluations of Airborne Pathogen Transmission: From Human Physiology,
Saliva Instabilities, and Studies of Safety in a Classroom Setting
Professor Michael Kinzel,
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of Central Florida
15:30 -16:30
Reimagining the Utah Symphony using Computational Fluid Dynamics
Professor Tony Saad,
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Utah
16:30 – 17:30
Role of Forced Air Warming Blowers in Dispersion of Microbial Skin Colonizers in an Operating Room
Professor Sourabh V. Apte* and Professor Said Elghobashi**
*School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering, Oregon State University
**Henry Samueli School of Engineering University of California, Irvine
Abstracts of invited talks:
covid_19_flow_abstracts_january_15__2021_1.pdf
Programme to download:
covid_19_flow_zoom-meeting_15_january_2021.pdf
Zoom-Meeting Convenors: