Modeling inspiratory and expiratory steady-state velocity fields in the Sprague-Dawley rat nasal cavity

Chemical Senses

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 215-223

  Yang, Geoffrey C ^a,b   Scherer, Peter W ^a   Mozell, Maxwell M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

^c State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element analysis; Nasal airflow; Olfactory mucosa; Sniffing; Streamline

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER MODEL; EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; INSPIRATORY RESERVE VOLUME; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NOSE AIRFLOW; NOSE CAVITY; NOSE MUCOSA; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY MEMORY; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REST; SNIFFING; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STEADY STATE;

ANIMALS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NASAL CAVITY; OLFACTORY MUCOSA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SMELL;

RATTUS;

EID: 34247116042     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjl047     Document Type: Article

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