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SUBMITTER: Crimaldi JP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9732293 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Crimaldi John P JP True Aaron C AC Linden Karl G KG Hernandez Mark T MT Larson Lars T LT Pauls Anna K AK
Scientific reports 20221208 1
Aerosols can transmit infectious diseases including SARS-CoV-2, influenza and norovirus. Flushed toilets emit aerosols that spread pathogens contained in feces, but little is known about the spatiotemporal evolution of these plumes or the velocity fields that transport them. Using laser light to illuminate ejected aerosols we quantify the kinematics of plumes emanating from a commercial flushometer-type toilet, and use the motion of aerosol particles to compute velocity fields of the associated ...[more]