Bagchi, S and Basu, S and Chaudhuri, S and Saha, A (2021) Penetration and secondary atomization of droplets impacted on wet facemasks. In: Physical Review Fluids, 6 (11).
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Abstract
Face covering, commonly known as a facemask, is considered to be one of the most effective pieces of personal protective equipment to reduce transmissions of pathogens through respiratory droplets - both large droplets and liquid aerosol particles. Facemasks inhibit the expulsion of such respiratory droplets from the user and protect the user from inhaling pathogen-laden potentially harmful droplets or their dried nuclei. While the efficacies of various dry face masks have been explored in the recent past, a comprehensive investigation of a wet mask is lacking. Yet users wear masks for an extended period and, consequently, due to the deposition of respiratory droplets released through multiple respiratory events, the mask matrix becomes wet. We, herein, present an experimental study on the dynamics of sequential impacts of droplets on masks to understand how wetness affects possible penetration and secondary atomization of the impacted droplet. Two different types of masks, hydrophobic and hydrophilic, were used in this study to evaluate the underlying physical mechanisms that control the penetration in each of them. © 2021 American Physical Society.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Physical Review Fluids |
| Publisher: | American Physical Society |
| Additional Information: | The copyright for this article belongs to the Author. |
| Keywords: | Drops; Protective clothing, 'Dry' ; Aerosol particles; Face masks; Hydrophobic and hydrophilic; Liquid aerosols; matrix; Personal protective equipment; Physical mechanism; Secondary atomization, Atomization |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Mechanical Sciences > Mechanical Engineering |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Jan 2022 11:14 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Jan 2022 11:14 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/70842 |
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