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Rodríguez Hakim, Mariana

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Autor: Vermant, Jan × Fecha de inicio: 2020 ×

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    Effects of bulk elasticity on sheet formation and expansion
    (Elsevier, 2022-10-01) Stricker, Laura; Vermant, Jan; Rodríguez Hakim, Mariana
    The destabilization, fragmentation, and atomization of thin fluid sheets governs processes such as the aerosolization of sneeze ejecta, agrochemical spraying, and fuel injection in liquid rocket engines. Although the evolution, stability, and breakup of fluid sheets composed of a Newtonian liquid has been extensively studied, the morphology and dynamics of viscoelastic fluid sheets remains poorly understood. This manuscript provides a theoretical and numerical framework that integrates the effects of fluid elasticity, surface tension, inertia, and viscosity to predict the morphology, velocity, and stress within stable fluid sheets composed of viscoelastic fluids as a function of the dimensionless Weber, Reynolds, and Weissenberg numbers. We find a non-monotonic behavior in the sheet’s size, velocity, and stress distribution as a function of the ratio between the Weissenberg and the Weber numbers. In particular, a minimum in the sheet’s size and a maximum in the stress occur when such a ratio is of the order of unity. We interpret these results as the consequence of the competing effects of the growth-favoring inertia and the restoring elastic forces acting within the sheet.
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    Variations in human saliva viscoelasticity affect aerosolization propensity
    (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2022-01-26) Räz, Linard; Vermant, Jan; Rodríguez Hakim, Mariana
    Some contagious diseases, such as COVID-19, spread through the transmission of aerosols and droplets. Aerosol and droplet formation occurs inside and outside of the respiratory tract, the latter being observed during speaking and sneezing. Upon sneezing, saliva is expelled as a flat sheet, which destabilizes into filaments that subsequently break up into droplets. The presence of macromolecules (such as mucins) in saliva influences the dynamics of aerosol generation, since elasticity is expected to stabilize both fluid sheets and filaments, hence deterring droplet formation. In this study, the process of aerosol formation outside the respiratory tract is systematically replicated using an impinging jet setup, where two liquid jets collide and form a thin fluid sheet that can fragment into ligaments and droplets. The experimental setup enables us to investigate a range of dynamic conditions, quantified by the relevant non-dimensional numbers, which encompass those experienced during sneezing. Experiments are conducted with human saliva provided by different donors, revealing significant variations in their stability and breakup. We quantify the effect of viscoelasticity via shear and extensional rheology experiments, concluding that the extensional relaxation time is the most adequate measure of a saliva's elasticity. We summarize our results in terms of the dimensionless Weber, Reynolds, and Deborah numbers and construct universal state diagrams that directly compare our data to human sneezing, concluding that the aerosolization propensity is correlated with diminished saliva elasticities, higher emission velocities, and larger ejecta volumes. This could entail variations in disease transmission between individuals which hitherto have not been recognized.