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WHAT EXACTLY IS MOBILE PHONE FORENSIC CLONING?
- The effect of temperature and humidity on the novel coronavirus has been studied a number of times since the pandemic took hold. So have the fluid dynamics and heat transfer aspects of the evaporation of droplets.
- A new study has now looked at evaporation of respiratory droplets — specifically those that contain virus.
WHAT EXACTLY IS MOBILE PHONE FORENSIC CLONING?
- Conducted by University of Nicosia researchers, the paper is published in the American Institute of Physics journal Physics of Fluids.
- When temperature is high and relative humidity is low simultaneously, the study found a significant reduction in virus viability. On the other hand, when RH is high, then the distance travelled by the droplet cloud, and the virus concentration remain significant — at any temperature.
WHAT EXACTLY IS MOBILE PHONE FORENSIC CLONING?
- This, the study notes, is in contradiction with what was previously believed by many epidemiologists.
- The study cites the example of Delhi in July, when temperature and RH were both high, yet cases saw a surge. The number of cases grew by more than half from 87,000 at the end of June to 1.35 lakh at the end of July, according to government records.
RESEARCH
- The research took into account humidity, temperature, and wind speed. The researchers developed new theoretical correlations for the unsteady evaporation of coronavirus-contaminated saliva droplets. It introduced the thermodynamic properties of virions (the complete virus) as a liquid.
- The key finding is that evaporation is a critical factor for the transmission of the infectious particles immersed in respiratory clouds of saliva droplets
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