Modelling nasal air flow using a Fourier descriptor representation of geometry

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1259-1283

  Gambaruto, A M ^a   Taylor, D J ^a   Doorly, D J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anisotropic surface smoothing; Fourier descriptors; Geometry characterization and decomposition; Implicit function; Nasal air flow; Nasal passage

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC SURFACE SMOOTHING; FOURIER DESCRIPTORS; IMPLICIT FUNCTION; NASAL AIR FLOW; NASAL PASSAGE;

AIR; ANISOTROPY; CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; CURVE FITTING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 66149102115     PISSN: 02712091     EISSN: 10970363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fld.1866     Document Type: Article

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