New methods to find the time of death

I found an interesting article which presents a new method for finding out the time of death: simulating dead bodies.

“Maurice Aalders at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and his colleagues developed the new approach, which uses data collected from the scene where a body is found to create a 3D computer simulation. Skin and air temperatures, body size and position, and details of any clothing all feed into the model, which is then split into a matrix of cubes.

The model calculates the rate at which heat would be transferred between neighbouring cubes, according to the thermodynamic properties of the materials they are made up of – for example, clothing or skin. This provides an estimate of how much the temperature of the body has changed since death, which can be used to calculate the elapsed time.”

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2244859-simulating-dead-bodies-could-help-calculate-an-accurate-time-of-death/