Numerical modeling of turbulent and laminar airflow and odorant transport during sniffing in the human and rat nose

Chemical Senses

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 107-118

  Zhao, Kai ^a,b   Dalton, Pamela ^a   Yang, Geoffery C ^b,c   Scherer, Peter W ^a,b  

^a MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

Author keywords

Laminar nasal airflow; Odorant uptake modeling during sniff; Olfactory odorant uptake; Turbulent nasal airflow

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; EXHALATION; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; INHALATION; LAMINAR AIRFLOW; NONHUMAN; NOSE CAVITY; NOSE MUCOSA; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIMULATION; SNIFFING; TURBULENT FLOW;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXHALATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHALATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOSE; ODORS; OLFACTORY MUCOSA; RATS; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SMELL;

EID: 32544453395     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjj008     Document Type: Article

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