In Vitro Experiments and Numerical Simulations of Airflow in Realistic Nasal Airway Geometry

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 997-1007

  Croce, Céline ^a   Fodil, Redouane ^a   Durand, Marc ^b,c   Sbirlea Apiou, Gabriela ^d   Caillibotte, Georges ^d   Papon, Jean François ^a,e   Blondeau, Jean Robert ^f   Coste, André ^a,e   Isabey, Daniel ^a   Louis, Bruno ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^c Emile Roux Hospital AP HP   (France)

^d AIR LIQUIDE   (France)

^e HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

^f CENTRE HOSPITALIER INTERCOMMUNAL DE CRÉTEIL   (France)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); CT scans; Nasal airflow; Nasal airway model; Three dimensional reconstruction

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRESSURE DROP; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

NASAL AIRFLOW; NASAL AIRWAY MODEL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION;

FLOW MEASUREMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREATHING MECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; FLOW KINETICS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG VENTILATION; METHODOLOGY; NOSE CAVITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NASAL CAVITY; PULMONARY VENTILATION; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 33745476098     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-006-9094-8     Document Type: Article

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