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Fluid Dynamics of Disease Transmission

  • Fluid flow measurements and quantification at the microscale matters for health: How flow-cell interactions help understand obstruction of key medical devices and suggest novel designs
  • The Anatomy of a Sneeze
  • Bcacteria-contaminated bubbles revealed by interferometry.
  • Bubble film drops
  • Bubbles and health
  • Bubbles can live
  • Bubbles: their life and influence on transport of life
  • Cough droplets
  • Cough flow visualization
  • Cough sequence
  • Crescent-moon drop on drop impact: time-lapse of impact.
  • Crescent-moon drop-on-drop fragmentation from surfaces of average wetting.
  • Crescent-moon drop-on-drop impact: just before collision
  • Drop impact on a thin liquid film with a crown rising upward with unsteady rim bordering the crown governed by the unsteady local Bond = 1 universal criterion.
  • Drop-on-drop impacts on surfaces of average wetting.
  • Droplet from flushes – transmission of Cdiff
  • Droplets and contamination from rain impact on leaves
  • Evaporation enhances the lifetime of bubbles and makes them thicker
  • Fluid flow measurements and quantification at the microscale matters for health: How flow-cell interactions help understand obstruction of key medical devices and suggest novel designs
  • Foliar Disease Transmission
  • Fragmentation of mucosalivary fluid
  • From impact on leaves to crescent-moon drop-on-drop fragmentation, to edge sheet fragmentation
  • Hornes of the Crescent Moon: drop on drop impact fragmentation.
  • Human Violent Exhalation: Multiphase Turbulent Gas Cloud
  • Immortal salt bubbles
  • Impacts close to an edge: regimes of sheet fragmentation and droplets
  • Ligaments shedding one drop at a time during unsteady sheet fragmentation
  • Mixing on surface bubbles
  • Non-isolated drop impact on surfaces
  • Our paper on the Ageing and burst of surface bubbles selected for the JFM Volume 851 cover page.
  • Rain-induced foliar disease transmission
  • Rain-induced foliar disease transmission
  • Rain-induced foliar pathogen ejection
  • Regimes of impact close to a surface’s edge: change in sheet fragmentation regimes
  • Sheet fragmentation from impact of a drop near a surface edge, causing the sheet’s left part to expand in the air, with unsteady rim bordering the sheet in the air also governed by the unsteady local Bond = 1 universal criterion.
  • Sheets and impacts – ARFM2021
  • Sneeze cloud
  • Sneeze ejecta: large droplet ejecta
  • Sneeze large droplet trajectories
  • Study on drop-on-drop impacts derive the regime map as a function of impact conditions
  • Unsteady sheet fragmentation from impact of a drop near a surface edge
  • Violent expirations: importance of the multiphase turbulent cloud
  • Water bubbles burst at their foot
  • Wave breaking generating droplets and bubbles

Disease Transmission and Epidemiology

  • Connectivity and disease transmission
  • H5N1 persistence due to recurrent coupling of migratory birds and poultry populations
  • Migration Dynamics

Fluid Dynamics: Turbulence

  • Forced rotating flow
  • Forced rotating flow
  • Intermediate Ro regime
  • Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and rapidly rotating flows

Group Activities

  • 2018 graduation. Congratulations to Jia Su!
  • 2020 HST class travel to South Africa to learn about the history and challenges of epidemics.
  • Biking break!
  • Brainstorming and problem solving at the Corsica Fluids and Health 2019 meeting
  • Emerging from the forest into the sky during our annual hike, here along the Franconia Notch, NH
  • Halloween pumpkin carving Competition!
  • Hands-on table-top physics demos
  • Hiking in NH
  • HST class travel to South Africa to learn about the history and challenges of epidemics
  • Inaugural Fluids and Health 2019: The Fluid Dynamics of Disease Transmission
  • NIMBIOS advisory board discussions
  • Organizing and attending the C.C. Mei Distinguished Lecture
  • South Africa Nelson Mandela
  • Surprise celebration from the group for the promotion of Prof. Bourouiba to Associate Professor (2019)!
  • Taking a break to bike along the river
  • TEDMED 2018 Group Streaming Celebration Gathering!
  • Tenured in July 2020 in a COVID19 Year
  • Tse Check Ng Tai’s Ideas Annual Retreat
  • Tse Cheuk Ng Tai’s Ideas Retreat 2016.
  • Working on food safety modeling

Collaborations and Outreach/Media Activities

  • 3 Questions Ebola – MIT
  • Be Aware of Droplets and Bubbles!
  • Closing of the inaugural 2019 Fluids and Health Conference
  • Feature article on rain-induced foliar disease propagation.
  • Fluid fragmentation shapes rain-induced foliar disease transmission
  • Fluids and Health inaugural meeting 2019. Application portal OPEN
  • Heathy Teaching
  • Illustration-cloud-multiphase
  • Logo
  • Not a Simple Spray
  • Spotlight – Data and Health
  • The fluid dynamics of violent expirations: the multiphase turbulent cloud