L. Bourouiba

Most-cited papers

Turbulent Gas Clouds and Respiratory Pathogen Emissions: Potential Implications for Reducing Transmission of COVID-19.
L. Bourouiba
2020Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)1,313 citations
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Violent expiratory events: on coughing and sneezing
L. Bourouiba, E. Dehandschoewercker, J. M. Bush
2014Journal of Fluid Mechanics828 citations Open access
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Airborne or Droplet Precautions for Health Workers Treating Coronavirus Disease 2019?
Prateek Bahl, C. Doolan, C. D. de Silva, A. Chughtai +2 more
2020Journal of Infectious Diseases445 citations Open access
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Two metres or one: what is the evidence for physical distancing in covid-19?
Nicholas R. Jones, Z. Qureshi, Robert J Temple, Jessica P. J. Larwood +2 more
2020British medical journal359 citations Open access
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Visualization of sneeze ejecta: steps of fluid fragmentation leading to respiratory droplets
B. Scharfman, A. Techet, J. M. Bush, L. Bourouiba
2016Experiments in Fluids288 citations Open access
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The Fluid Dynamics of Disease Transmission
L. Bourouiba
2021Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics284 citations Open access
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A multitrophic model to quantify the effects of marine viruses on microbial food webs and ecosystem processes
J. Weitz, C. Stock, S. Wilhelm, L. Bourouiba +13 more
2015The ISME Journal237 citations Open access
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Practical Indicators for Risk of Airborne Transmission in Shared Indoor Environments and Their Application to COVID-19 Outbreaks
Z. Peng, A. L. Pineda Rojas, E. Kropff, W. Bahnfleth +18 more
2022Environmental Science and Technology193 citations Open access
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Host-to-host airborne transmission as a multiphase flow problem for science-based social distance guidelines
S. Balachandar, Stéphane Zaleski, A. Soldati, G. Ahmadi +1 more
2020medRxiv184 citations Open access
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How did we get here: what are droplets and aerosols and how far do they go? A historical perspective on the transmission of respiratory infectious diseases
K. Randall, E. Ewing, L. Marr, J. Jimenez +1 more
2021Interface Focus143 citations Open access
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Ageing and burst of surface bubbles
S. Poulain, E. Villermaux, L. Bourouiba
2018Journal of Fluid Mechanics136 citations
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Fluid fragmentation shapes rain-induced foliar disease transmission
T. Gilet, L. Bourouiba
2015Journal of the Royal Society Interface121 citations Open access
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Fluid Dynamics of Respiratory Infectious Diseases.
L. Bourouiba
2021Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering118 citations Open access
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Unsteady sheet fragmentation: droplet sizes and speeds
Y. Wang, L. Bourouiba
2018Journal of Fluid Mechanics85 citations
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Universal Rim Thickness in Unsteady Sheet Fragmentation.
Y. Wang, R. Dandekar, N. Bustos, S. Poulain +1 more
2018Physical Review Letters81 citations Open access
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Rain-induced ejection of pathogens from leaves: revisiting the hypothesis of splash-on-film using high-speed visualization.
T. Gilet, L. Bourouiba
2014Integrative and Comparative Biology72 citations Open access
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IMAGES IN CLINICAL MEDICINE. A Sneeze.
L. Bourouiba
2016New England Journal of Medicine68 citations Open access
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Drop impact on small surfaces: thickness and velocity profiles of the expanding sheet in the air
Y. Wang, L. Bourouiba
2017Journal of Fluid Mechanics66 citations
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Moving with bubbles: a review of the interactions between bubbles and the microorganisms that surround them.
P. Walls, J. Bird, L. Bourouiba
2014Integrative and Comparative Biology62 citations
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An analytic solution for capillary thinning and breakup of FENE-P fluids
C. Wagner, L. Bourouiba, G. McKinley
201560 citations Open access
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Natural sources and experimental generation of bioaerosols: Challenges and perspectives
Malin Alsved, L. Bourouiba, C. Duchaine, J. Löndahl +4 more
2020Aerosol Science and Technology59 citations Open access
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Biosurfactants Change the Thinning of Contaminated Bubbles at Bacteria-Laden Water Interfaces.
S. Poulain, L. Bourouiba
2018Physical Review Letters58 citations Open access
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The intermediate Rossby number range and two-dimensional–three-dimensional transfers in rotating decaying homogeneous turbulence
L. Bourouiba, P. Bartello
2007Journal of Fluid Mechanics58 citations Open access
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Spatial dynamics of bar-headed geese migration in the context of H5N1
L. Bourouiba, Jian-Hong Wu, Scott H. Newman, J. Takekawa +6 more
2010Journal of the Royal Society Interface51 citations Open access
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Coughing and sneezing
L. Bourouiba, Abiy Tasissa, J. M. Bush
201048 citations
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Associations between indoor relative humidity and global COVID-19 outcomes
C. Verheyen, L. Bourouiba
2022Journal of the Royal Society Interface44 citations Open access
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Highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak mitigated by seasonal low pathogenic strains: insights from dynamic modeling.
L. Bourouiba, A. Teslya, Jianhong Wu
2011Journal of Theoretical Biology40 citations
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The Interaction of Migratory Birds and Domestic Poultry and Its Role in Sustaining Avian Influenza
L. Bourouiba, S. A. Gourley, Rong-Song Liu, Jian-Hong Wu
2011SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics37 citations Open access
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Non-local energy transfers in rotating turbulence at intermediate Rossby number
L. Bourouiba, D. Straub, Michael L. Waite
2011Journal of Fluid Mechanics35 citations
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Nosocomial amplification of MERS-coronavirus in South Korea, 2015
M. Majumder, J. Brownstein, S. Finkelstein, R. Larson +1 more
2017Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene34 citations Open access
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Growth and breakup of ligaments in unsteady fragmentation
Y. Wang, L. Bourouiba
2021Journal of Fluid Mechanics33 citations
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Disease transmission via drops and bubbles
S. Poulain, L. Bourouiba
2019Physics today31 citations Open access
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Non-isolated drop impact on surfaces
Y. Wang, L. Bourouiba
2017Journal of Fluid Mechanics30 citations
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From regional pulse vaccination to global disease eradication: insights from a mathematical model of poliomyelitis
C. Browne, Robert J. Smith, L. Bourouiba
2013Journal of Mathematical Biology30 citations Open access
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Edge effect: Liquid sheet and droplets formed by drop impact close to an edge
S. Lejeune, T. Gilet, L. Bourouiba
2018Physical Review Fluids28 citations Open access
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Revisiting the Physics of Spider Ballooning
Kimberly S. Sheldon, Long-Hua Zhao, Angela Chuang, I. Panayotova +2 more
201721 citations Open access
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Discreteness and resolution effects in rapidly rotating turbulence.
L. Bourouiba
2008Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics20 citations Open access
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Drops and Bubbles in the Environment
L. Bourouiba, J. M. Bush
201216 citations
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Candidate transmission survival genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Saurabh Mishra, Prabhat Ranjan Singh, Xiao-Yi Hu, Landys Lopez-Quezada +14 more
2025bioRxiv15 citations Open access
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Non-Galilean Taylor–Culick law governs sheet dynamics in unsteady fragmentation
Y. Wang, L. Bourouiba
2023Journal of Fluid Mechanics15 citations
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Mass, momentum and energy partitioning in unsteady fragmentation
Y. Wang, L. Bourouiba
2022Journal of Fluid Mechanics13 citations Open access
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Correction to Practical Indicators for Risk of Airborne Transmission in Shared Indoor Environments and Their Application to COVID-19 Outbreaks.
Zhe Peng, Andrea L. Pineda Rojas, E. Kropff, W. Bahnfleth +18 more
2022Environmental Science and Technology12 citations Open access
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Spin coating of capillary tubes
Bauyrzhan K. Primkulov, A. Pahlavan, L. Bourouiba, John W. M. Bush +1 more
2020Journal of Fluid Mechanics11 citations Open access
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Model of a truncated fast rotating flow at infinite Reynolds number
L. Bourouiba
200811 citations Open access
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Flying Spiders: Simulating and Modeling the Dynamics of Ballooning
Long-Hua Zhao, I. Panayotova, Angela Chuang, Kimberly S. Sheldon +2 more
20179 citations
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Estimating social contacts in mass gatherings for disease outbreak prevention and management: case of Hajj pilgrimage
M. Tofighi, A. Asgary, Ghassem Tofighi, M. Najafabadi +10 more
2022Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines7 citations Open access
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Surface-tension phenomena in organismal biology: an introduction to the symposium.
L. Bourouiba, D. Hu, Rachel Levy
2014Integrative and Comparative Biology7 citations
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Understanding the transmission of H5N1
L. Bourouiba
20137 citations
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Fluid fragmentation from hospital toilets
G. Traverso, S. Laken, C.-C. Lu, R. Maa +2 more
20136 citations
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Quantifying transmission risk of SARS-CoV-2 in different situations
T. Greenhalgh, Zhe Peng, J. Jimenez, W. Bahnfleth +2 more
2022British medical journal5 citations Open access
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