2020 Archive
- Engineers Ireland’s Engineering Excellence Digital Series
- George Vathakkattil Joseph, a Ph.D. student in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering has come runner-up in the ThesisIn3 competition at UCD for his talk
- The Irish Laboratory Awards 2020
- Students celebrate victory at the ‘Shaping Your Future’ 3D printing innovation challenge
- UCD team wins prestigious ESB Inter-Colleges Challenge 2020
- Digital Animation for Educators
- Intel’s Colm Farrell named as Adjunct Professor at UCD
- UCD Engineers Receive 2019 NovaUCD Innovation Awards
- PlasmaBound Seals €1.1 million Investment Round
- UCD Formula Student Wins the 2020 NovaUCD Student Enterprise Competition
- Airflow video shows how easily coronavirus can be spread by coughing
- UCD volunteers use 3D printing to produce PPE for front-line COVID-19 medical staff
- UCD engineer leads Irish efforts in global race to build ventilators
- UCD-based Inventors Help Create Ingenious Solutions to Everyday Problems for Extraordinary People on Big Life Fix
- Arup UCD Engineering scholarships 2019
Airflow video shows how easily coronavirus can be spread by coughing
Thursday, 16 April, 2020
The project uses schleiren imaging technology – which uses light to show the density of fluids - to illustrate how air moves around people when they cough or sneeze.
Created by (opens in a new window)Professor Ronan Cahill, of the UCD School of Medicine and Professor of Surgery at Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, and (opens in a new window)Dr Kevin Nolan, from the UCD School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, the video demonstrates how far a cough can travel, highlighting why it is important for people to maintain social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"You see quite easily that we are all walking around in a cloud and particularly if we cough,” said Professor Cahill (opens in a new window)speaking to RTE News.
“Particularly if we sneeze that that cloud might impinge on other people's personal space.
"The country is doing a fantastic job at the moment of staying apart from each other but it is really important that we keep doing that.
"The single most important thing to do is to stay apart from each other. The risk of infection of Covid-19 is related to proximity between people,” added Professor Cahill.
By: David Kearns, Digital Journalist / Media Officer, UCD University Relations