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How a table modulates the risk of airborne transmission between facing individuals
Oğuzhan Kaplan, Manouk Abkarian, Simon Mendez
Airborne transmission has been recognized as an important route of transmission for SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. While coughing and sneezing are spe…
Speech can produce jet-like transport relevant to asymptomatic spreading of virus
Manouk Abkarian, Simon Mendez, Nan Xue +2
Many scientific reports document that asymptomatic and presymptomatic individuals contribute to the spread of COVID-19, probably during conversations in social interactions. Drople…
How Capillary Rafts Sink
S. Protiere, M. Abkarian, J. Aristoff +1
We present a fluid dynamics video showing how capillary rafts sink. Small objects trapped at an interface are very common in Nature (insects walking on water, ant rafts, bubbles or…