关于SARS-CoV-2传播的紫外线C光照射下咳嗽飞沫的欧拉-拉格朗日建模。
Eulerian-Lagrangian modeling of cough droplets irradiated by ultraviolet-C light in relation to SARS-CoV-2 transmission.
作者信息
D'Alessandro V, Falone M, Giammichele L, Ricci R
机构信息
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale e Scienze Matematiche, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Brecce Bianche 12, 60131 Ancona (AN), Italy.
出版信息
Phys Fluids (1994). 2021 Mar 1;33(3):031905. doi: 10.1063/5.0039224. Epub 2021 Mar 9.
It is well known that several viruses, as well as SARS-CoV-2, can be transmitted through airborne diffusion of saliva micro-droplets. For this reason, many research groups have devoted their efforts in order to gain new insight into the transport of fluids and particles originated from human respiratory tracts. This paper aims to provide a contribution to the numerical modeling of saliva droplets' diffusion produced by coughing. It is worth noting that droplets' diameters of interest in this work are such that represent typical emission during a cough. Aerosolization effects are neglected since emitted droplets' diameters are greater than 10 m. In particular, the well-known problem around the safety distance to be held for avoiding virus transmission in the absence of external wind is further investigated. Thus, new indices capable of evaluating the contamination risk are introduced, and the possibility to inactivate virus particles by means of an external ultraviolet-C (UV-C) radiation source is studied. For this purpose, a new model which takes into account biological inactivation deriving from UV-C exposure in an Eulerian-Lagrangian framework is presented.
众所周知,包括严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2(SARS-CoV-2)在内的多种病毒可通过唾液微滴的空气传播扩散。因此,许多研究团队致力于深入了解源自人类呼吸道的流体和颗粒的传输情况。本文旨在为咳嗽产生的唾液飞沫扩散的数值模拟做出贡献。值得注意的是,本研究中感兴趣的液滴直径代表咳嗽期间的典型排放情况。由于排放液滴直径大于10微米,因此忽略了雾化效应。特别是,进一步研究了在没有外部风的情况下为避免病毒传播而应保持的安全距离这一众所周知的问题。因此,引入了能够评估污染风险的新指标,并研究了利用外部紫外线-C(UV-C)辐射源灭活病毒颗粒的可能性。为此,提出了一个在欧拉-拉格朗日框架下考虑UV-C暴露导致的生物灭活的新模型。