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JOURNAL OF AEROSOL SCIENCE
卷 175, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaerosci.2023.106282
关键词
Speech; Saliva; Aerosolization; Filament; Plosives
Phonation has been found to be a potent transmission route for the COVID-19 virus. To control transmission, it is important to measure the amount of aerosols produced by speech. Researchers used digital in-line holography to overcome experimental challenges and successfully imaged the formation and deformation of saliva filaments in the mouth during speech, as well as the resulting aerosolized droplets.
Phonation produces aerosols, and speech has proven to be a pernicious, invisible, yet potent viral transmission route among asymptomatic individuals in the COVID-19 pandemic. To develop comprehensive mitigation strategies and mechanisms to control transmission, it is crucial to measure both the amount of aerosols produced by a speaking individual and the associated atomization processes. However, these biological emissions are hard to characterize since they are intermittent, faint, range drastically in size between 1 and 1000 mu m, and form and travel rapidly, with speeds of a few to tens of meters per second. Here, we present digital in-line holography (DIH) as a lens-less and powerful tool to overcome many of these experimental challenges. Focusing on speech-induced aerosolization, we demonstrate the capacity of DIH to image the rapid formation, elongation, and deformation of saliva filaments in three dimensions and directly at the mouth of a speaking individual. The size of both the filaments and the subsequent aerosolized droplets are accessible over a field of view spanning several centimeters cubed. We quantify the droplets produced by distinct plosive consonants (/p/ and/t/) and we observe how filaments destabilize with a characteristic whipping dynamic, emitting rotational dumbells with liquid lobes linked by thinning saliva threads. We also image high-speed air fronts produced during plosion, with speeds as fast as tens of meters per second, classifying plosive consonant phonation as a violent atomization event like sneezing.
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