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  • Gallery of Fluid Motion
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Fluid dynamics of COVID-19 spread

Azar Eslam-Panah

  • Penn State University at Berks, Reading, Pennsylvania 16910, USA

Phys. Rev. Fluids 6, 110502 – Published 15 November, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.6.110502

Abstract

This paper is associated with a poster winner of a 2020 American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) Milton van Dyke Award for work presented at the DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion. The original poster is available online at the Gallery of Fluid Motion, https://doi.org/10.1103/APS.DFD.2020.GFM.P0017.

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