An overview of numerical modelling of nasal airflow

Rhinology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 53-57

  Bailie, Neil ^a,c   Hanna, Brendan ^a   Watterson, John ^b   Gallagher, Geraldine ^a  

^a ANTRIM AREA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Airflow; Computer simulation; Human; Nasal obstruction; Nasal Surgery

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW KINETICS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLUID FLOW; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NOSE AIRFLOW; NOSE CAVITY; NOSE SURGERY; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; PREDICTION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, SUPERCRITICAL FLUID; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NASAL CAVITY; PULMONARY VENTILATION;

EID: 33644916097     PISSN: 03000729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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