Thermal effects on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in peristaltic blood flow : mathematical modelling

Tripathi, D; Bhandari, DS; Beg, OA

Abstract

SARS-CoV-2 is a novel viral species that has been identified as a highly infectious disease.
Scientists have endeavored to collect essential information to characterize better the behaviour of
this virus including droplet transmission and airborne effects. However, it is not clear thus far
whether temperature can substantially alter the pandemic trajectory inside the physiological
system. The present study aims to investigate how temperature may affect virus transmission in
peristaltic blood vessels, and how virus density and diameter, and blood viscosity (i.e. viscosity of
carrying fluids) will affect the transmission of the virus in the circulatory system. The modelling
deployed assumes that coronavirus with a diameter of 120

Citation

Tripathi, D., Bhandari, D., & Beg, O. (2022). Thermal effects on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in peristaltic blood flow : mathematical modelling. Physics of Fluids, 34(6), https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0095286

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: May 20, 2022
• Online Publication Date: Jun 13, 2022
• Publication Date: Jun 13, 2022
• Deposit Date: Jun 9, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 9, 2022
• Journal: Physics of Fluids
• Print ISSN: 1070-6631
• Publisher: AIP Publishing
• Volume: 34
• Issue: 6
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0095286
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0095286
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• Additional Information: Additional Information : “This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This article appeared in Physics of Fluids 34, 061904 (2022); and may be found at https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/5.0095286