Transport phenomena in the human nasal cavity: A computational model

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 831-839

  Naftali, S ^a   Schroter, R C ^b   Shiner, R J ^c   Elad, D ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Heat transfer; Respiratory air conditioning; Water vapor exchange

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREATHING; EXERCISE; HEAT; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NOSE CAVITY; NOSE DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TEMPERATURE; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; TURBINATE;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; EXERCISE; HEAT; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NASAL CAVITY; NOSE DISEASES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATION; TEMPERATURE; TURBINATES; WATER;

EID: 0032161137     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1114/1.108     Document Type: Article

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