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Liquid-curtain-based strategy to restrain plume during flushing

Authors :
Yun-yun Li
Ji-Xiang Wang
Guo Mengyue
Jun Chen
Shuhuai Yao
Su-Chen Wu
Source :
Physics of Fluids
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
AIP Publishing LLC, 2020.

Abstract

How to prevent the flushing-induced plume without changing people's daily habits? Enlightened by thoughts of redesigning the restroom, this article provides a redesigned toilet using liquid-curtain-based strategy and verifies its advantages from the computational fluid dynamics. Two favorable effects are spotted: (1) the liquid curtain can suppress the upward virus particles (only 1% viruses can be lifted out of the toilet) and (2) the flow distribution caused by the liquid curtain can deliver virus particles into the sewage efficiently.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
10897666 and 10706631
Volume :
32
Issue :
11
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Physics of Fluids
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....dc2f2448fe92b0411236ae8fab25c3bd