Hydrodynamics of back spatter by blunt bullet gunshot with a link to bloodstain pattern analysis

A theoretical model predicts backward blood spatter from a blunt bullet which favorably agrees with experimental data. Drop generation is explained through the Rayleigh-Taylor instability and includes the effects of air drag and drop-drop interactions.

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