Mean flow structures inside the human upper airway

Flow, Turbulence and Combustion

Volumn 81, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 155-188

  Ball, C G ^a   Uddin, M ^a,b   Pollard, A ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b EXA CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational; Experimental data; Human airway; Lattice Boltzmann

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; FLOW FIELDS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLOW STRUCTURE; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BUSINESS MEDIA; COMPUTATIONAL PREDICTIONS; CONTROL VOLUMES; DATA SETS; FLOW FEATURES; GROUND BASED (GB) DATA; HOT-WIRE MEASUREMENTS; LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD (LBM); MEAN FLOW STRUCTURES; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; REYNOLDS AVERAGED NAVIER STOKES (RANS); SAGITTAL PLANE; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D); THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) FLOW FIELDS; TIME VARYING FLOWS; UPPER AIRWAY;

FLOW SIMULATION;

EID: 48449096967     PISSN: 13866184     EISSN: 15731987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10494-007-9113-3     Document Type: Article

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