Can CFD establish a connection to a milder COVID-19 disease in younger people? Aerosol deposition in lungs of different age groups based on Lagrangian particle tracking in turbulent flow

DOI10.1007/s00466-021-01988-5zbMath1469.76136OpenAlexW3136347782WikidataQ113326745 ScholiaQ113326745MaRDI QIDQ2039089

Paul Steinmann, Jana Wedel, Jure Ravnik, Mitja Štrakl, Matjaž Hriberšek

Publication date: 8 July 2021

Published in: Computational Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00466-021-01988-5

zbMATH Keywords

SARS-CoV-2aerosol transportlung flowOpenFOAM package

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Epidemiology (92D30) Suspensions (76T20) Turbulent transport, mixing (76F25) Physiological flows (76Z05) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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• Numerische Strömungsmechanik

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