On quasi-steady laminar flow separation in the upper airways

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 447-461

  Van Hirtum, Annemie ^a   Cisonni, J ^a   Pelorson, X ^a  

^a GIPSA LAB   (France)

Author keywords

Experimental validation; Laminar flow; Obstructive sleep apnea; Phonation; Two dimensional

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; BOUNDARY-LAYER SOLUTION; DEGREES OF COMPLEXITY; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION; FLOW FEATURES; MODEL FLUIDS; OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA; PHONATION; QUANTITATIVE PREDICTION; QUASI-ONE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; QUASI-STEADY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; UPPER AIRWAY;

FLOW SEPARATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; LAMINAR FLOW; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; SEPARATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

SLEEP RESEARCH;

EID: 68749083579     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: 10990887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.1195     Document Type: Article

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