Computational fluid dynamics

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 25-33

  Lin, Ching Long ^a,b,c   Tawhai, Merryn ^b   McLennan, Geoffrey ^a,d,e,f   Hoffman, Eric ^b,g,h,i  

^a Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences Program

^d Iowa Institute of Biomedical Imaging   (United States)

^e Translational Lung Imaging Research Program

^f NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^h Physiological Imaging Laboratory   (United States)

ⁱ University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; AIR FLOW; AIRBORNE POLLUTANTS; CFD SIMULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL POWER; COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY; CT IMAGING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FIXED MESH; GAS DELIVERY; GAS PROPERTIES; HELIUM GAS; HYPERPOLARIZED; IMAGING RESOLUTIONS; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; LUNG FUNCTION; PARTICLE DEPOSITIONS; STRONG INTERACTION; SUBJECT-SPECIFIC; UNDERLYING MECHANISM; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG DELIVERY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; FLOW SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; GASES; GEOMETRY; HELIUM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MESH GENERATION; SIMULATORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; XENON;

AIR;

AEROSOL; AIRWAY; ARTICLE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; GAS FLOW; GEOMETRY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY AIRFLOW; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 66249100542     PISSN: 07395175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MEMB.2009.932480     Document Type: Article

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