Flow visualization and acoustic consequences of the air moving through a static model of the human larynx

Journal of Biomechanical Engineering

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 380-390

  Kucinschi, Bogdan R ^a   Scherer, Ronald C ^a   DeWitt, Kenneth J ^b   Ng, Terry T M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DISTORTION; FLOW VISUALIZATION; LAMINAR FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROPHONES; OPTIMIZATION; TURBULENT FLOW;

HUMAN LARYNX; JET FLOW; LASER SHEETS; SMOKE PARTICLES;

SMOKE DETECTORS;

AIR; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; GLOTTIS; LARYNX; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROPHONE; SMOKE; VOCAL CORD;

ACOUSTICS; AIR MOVEMENTS; AIR PRESSURE; HUMANS; LARYNX; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHONATION; VOCAL CORDS;

EID: 33745438298     PISSN: 01480731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2187042     Document Type: Article

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