Normal breathing with a mask (VIDEO)

American Institute of Physics

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Animation video of the instantaneous simulation results of saliva plume concentration contours (in volume fraction) during normal breathing shown on the sagittal plane with a nonmedical grade face mask. Considering a threshold of 1 part per million, saliva concentrations below 10-6 are cut off.

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Ali Khosronejad

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