Invariant in variants

• Published in: Ultrasonics Vol. 124; p. 106749
• Main Authors: Liu, Cong, Wu, Chen-Wu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01-08-2022
• Subjects: COVID-19; Humans; Pandemics - prevention & control; Short Communication; Sound; Vibration
• ISSN: 0041-624X; 1874-9968
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2022.106749

•Definite natural frequency range is obtained via computation on coronavirus Covid-19.•Acute spike swing could be resonantly stimulated by ultrasonic wave of low intensity.•Two efficient strategies of frequency scanning are proposed and verified numerically.
The coronavirus Covid-19 mutates quickly in the pandemic, leaves people struggling to verify and improve the effectiveness of the vaccine based on biochemistry. Is there any physical invariant in the variants of such kind of pathogen that could be taken advantage to ease the tensions? To this point, extensive numerical experiments based on continuity mechanics have been accomplished to discover the consistent vibration modes and the range of natural frequency of coronavirus Covid-19. Such invariant could help us in developing some flexible technique to deactivate the coronavirus, like as resonantly breaking the viral spike by ultrasound wave. The fundamental mechanisms governing such process are demonstrated via solving the coupled acoustic wave and elastic dynamic equations, after which the practical strategies are proposed to efficiently realize the technique concept.