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Video 1-8: Transfer of Respiratory Pathogens—Release of Viral Load from a Drop (ASIDE)

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PDE for the spatial distribution of the mean first passage time for a random walker inside a sphere to reach the surface. Spatial averaging gives the average escape time, assuming an initially uniform distribution of random walkers.

Speaker: Professor Martin Z. Bazant