A more in-depth way to predict gunshot wound blood spatter

Wednesday, August 3, 2016 - 07:31 in Health & Medicine

(Phys.org)—A small team of researchers from the University of Illinois and Iowa State University has developed what they describe as a theoretical model for both interpreting and predicting blood-spatter that results from a gunshot wound. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review Fluids, the group describes the factors they took into consideration in developing their model and how well it worked in experiments conducted with pig blood and sponges.

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