The work of a Clarkson University research team under the guidance of Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Andrea Ferro in collaboration with the research team led by Professor of Mathematics Sumona Mondal and Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Byron Erath was recently published in the journal Aerosol Science and Technology. The work was also selected to be featured as a video presentation.
The team includes Mahender Singh Rawat, Mehtap Agirsoy, Dinushani Senarathna, Tanvir Ahmed, Erath, Mondal, and Ferro. Their findings are titled “Comparing respiratory aerosol emissions between children and adults during sustained phonation.”
This study finds that age influences the size and quantity of respiratory particle emissions in humans during activities such as speaking, breathing, and vocalization. Findings indicate that children have lower emission rates and release smaller particles compared to adults. Therefore, incorporating age demographics into disease transmission models may improve their accuracy.
The entire article can be found here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02786826.2023.2261715 or you can view the video here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HH1C14Dq6k_QZ-J5rlZ32YWuwjc6coGL/view.
