Acinar flow irreversibility caused by perturbations in reversible alveolar wall motion

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 977-984

  Tsuda, Akira ^a   Otani, Yoshio ^b   Butler, James P ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Chaotic mixing; Fluid dynamics; Geometric hysteresis; Stokes flow

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; FLUID FLOW; GAS MIXING; GEOMETRY; HYSTERESIS; LUNG ALVEOLUS WALL; LUNG CIRCULATION; LUNG DEPOSIT; MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033055001     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jappl.1999.86.3.977     Document Type: Article

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