Interplay between Geometry and Flow Distribution in an Airway Tree

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 4-

  Mauroy, B ^a   Filoche, M ^b   Andrade, J S ^a,c   Sapoval, B ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE DE LA MATIÈRE CONDENSÉE   (France)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMIC MODEL; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREATHING MECHANICS; BRONCHUS; HUMAN; LUNG; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRONCHI; HUMANS; LUNG; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CATALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

AIRWAY TREE; FLOW ASYMMETRY; FLOW DISTRIBUTION; SYMMETRIC VOLUME;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 0037530424     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.148101     Document Type: Article

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