New Study by IIT Delhi Researchers

IIT Delhi researchers have demonstrated a procedure for estimating the probability of infection of a healthy occupant when living in the same enclosed space as a COVID19 infected person breathing out pathogens.

This has been shown in a recently published study titled "MODELLING OF DISPERSION OF AEROSOLIZED AIR-BORNE PATHOGENS EXHALED IN INDOOR SPACES" by Mr Praveen Sharma (M.Tech. Mechanical '22), Prof. Supreet Singh Bahga and Prof. Amit Gupta (Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Delhi) in the journal "Physics of Fluids".

This is one of the first demonstrations of estimating the likelihood of infection from a purely fluid dynamics perspective and considers the role of many occupants that affects the pathogen's spread.