Human cough as a two-stage jet and its role in particle transport

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Wei, Jianjian ^a,b   Li, Yuguo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COUGHING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PARTICLE SIZE; VELOCITY; VISCOSITY; WATER TEMPERATURE; FLOW KINETICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TIME FACTOR;

COUGH; HUMANS; PARTICLE SIZE; RHEOLOGY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85008498887     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0169235     Document Type: Article

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