By NAMI SUGIURA/ Staff Writer
March 5, 2021 at 18:20 JST
A simulation by the supercomputer Fugaku shows how droplets from coughing spread when a person is wearing a urethane mask over a nonwoven mask. Filters of the masks catch red droplets, while blue droplets pass through the filters and yellow droplets escape through a gap between the fabric and the face. (Provided by Riken Center for Computational Science, Toyohashi University of Technology and Tokyo Institute of Technology. Supported by Kyoto Institute of Technology, Osaka University and Daio Paper Corp.)
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