Expiratory flow in a rigid three-generation airway with one collapsible segment

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 553-563

  Yang, X L ^a,b,c   Liu, Y ^b   Yang, J M ^c  

^a SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

CFD; Collapsible tubes; Expiratory flow; Fluid structure interaction

Indexed keywords

CFD; DOWNSTREAM FLOW; ELASTIC TUBES; EXPIRATORY FLOW; EXPIRATORY FLOWS; FLUID FLOW; NONLINEAR DEFORMATIONS; WAVE NUMBERS;

COLLAPSIBLE TUBES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DEFORMATION; FLOW PATTERNS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDS; THIN WALLED STRUCTURES;

FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION;

EID: 68749086099     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: 10990887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.1198     Document Type: Article

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