Numerical simulation of air flow in the human nasal cavity

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 7 VOLS, Issue , 2005, Pages 5607-5610

  Wang, Kezhou ^a   Denney Jr , Thomas S ^a   Morrison, Edward E ^b   Vodyanoy, Vitaly J ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

AIR FLOW; NASAL CAVITIES; SIMULATION RESULTS;

MEDICAL PROBLEMS;

EID: 33846898963     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (12)

1. Scherer, P.W., et al., "Correlations Between Flow Resistance and Geometry in a Model of the Human Nose," Jap. J. Physiol, vol. 75(4): pp. 1767-1775,1993.
2. Hahn, I., P.W. Scherer, and M.M. Mozell, "Velocity Profiles Measured for Airflow Through a Large Scale Model of the Human Nasal Cavity", Bull. Math. Biol, vol. 75(5), pp. 2273-2287,1993.
3. Keyhani, K., P.W. Scherer, and M.M. Mozell, "Numerical Simulation of Air Flow in the Human Nasal Cavity", Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, vol. 117, pp. 429-441,1995.
4. Tarabichi, M. and N. Fanous, "Finite Element Analysis of Airflow in the Nasal Valve", Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg, vol. 119, pp. 169-172,1993.
5. Elad, D., et al., "Analysis of Air Flow Patterns in the Human Nose", Med Biol Eng Comput., vol. 31, pp. 585-592, 1993.
6. Proctor, D.F. and I. Anderson, "The Upper Airway" The Nose,. Elsevier Biomedical Press, New York, pp. 23-43,1982.
7. Szeliski, R. et al., "Fast Surface Interpolation Using Hierarchical Basis Functions", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 12(6), pp. 513-528,1990.
8. Lorensen, W. and H. Cliene, "Marching Cubes:a high resolution 3-D surface consruction algorithm," Computer Graphics, 1987. 21(3): p. 163-169.
9. Wang,K. and T.S. Denney, "Construction of 3-D Finite Element Meshes from Computed Tomography Data," submitted to 27th IEEE EMBS International Conference, Shanghai, China, 2005.
10. FIDAP Theory Manual, version 8.0, Fluent Inc.
11. Simmen, D., J. Scherrer, and B. Heinz, "Biophysics of nasal airflow: A review," Archives OF Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, vol. 125(9), pp. 1015-1021, 1999.
12. Churchill, S., et al., "Morphological variation and airflow dynamics in the human nose," AM J HUM BIOL, vol. 16(6), pp. 625-638, 2004