RES.10-S95 | Fall 2020 | Undergraduate

Physics of COVID-19 Transmission

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Video 5-3: Beyond the Well-Mixed Room—Ventilation

Mixing ventilation creates unstable thermal gradients, leading to more mixing, while displacement ventilation leads to stratification of the ambient air.

Ref: Bhagat, R., Davies Wykes, M., Dalziel, S., & Linden, P. (2020). Effects of ventilation on the indoor spread of COVID-19. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 903, F1. doi:10.1017/jfm.2020.720

Speaker: Professor Martin Z. Bazant

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