Numerical study of high-frequency oscillatory air flow and convective mixing in a CT-based human airway model

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3550-3571

  Choi, Jiwoong ^a,b   Xia, Guohua ^a,b   Tawhai, Merryn H ^d   Hoffman, Eric A ^a,c   Lin, Ching Long ^a,b  

^a IA United States   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

CFD; CT based human airway; High frequency oscillatory ventilation; Mixing; Secondary flow; Stretch rate

Indexed keywords

ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AIR FLOW; BREATHING CYCLE; CFD; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS ANALYSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVECTIVE MIXING; COUNTER-FLOWS; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; FLOW PHENOMENA; FLOW REVERSALS; FLUID STREAMS; GEOMETRICAL MODELS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HUMAN AIRWAY; MIXING PROCESS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; REYNOLDS; SECONDARY VORTEX; SINUSOIDAL WAVEFORMS; STRETCH RATE; TIDAL VOLUME; TIME-AVERAGED; TUBE MODEL; WOMERSLEY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MIXING; SECONDARY FLOW; VENTILATION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HIGH FREQUENCY VENTILATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYDRODYNAMICS; NEWBORN; RADIOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIDAL VOLUME; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; HIGH-FREQUENCY VENTILATION; HUMANS; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFANT, NEWBORN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; TIDAL VOLUME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78651385761     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-010-0110-7     Document Type: Article

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