
A virus-laden particle movement from urinal flushing is simulated. Similar to the toilet-induced flushing, results indicate that the trajectory of the particles triggered by the urinal flushing manifests an external spread type. Even more alarmingly, the particle can reach 0.84 m (man’s thigh) in 5.5 s when compared with the diffusion performance of the toilet-induced one (around 0.93 m in 35 s). A more violent climbing tendency is discovered in this Letter. Wearing masks should be made mandatory in public washrooms, and anti-diffusion improvements of facilities in public washrooms are urgently needed, especially in the current “SARS-CoV-2” crisis.
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Letters, Condensed Matter Physics
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Letters, Condensed Matter Physics
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