Computational fluid dynamics model of avian tracheal temperature control as a model for extant and extinct animals

Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 67-75

  Sverdlova, N S ^a   Arkali, F ^a   Witzel, U ^a   Perry, S F ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evaporative cooling; Respiration; Simulation; Thermoregulation; Trachea

Indexed keywords

AIR SAC; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREATHING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COOLING; CORE TEMPERATURE; DOMESTIC FOWL; EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE; HEAT; HEAT LOSS; HEAT TRANSFER; HUMIDITY; METABOLIC RATE; NECK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY AIRFLOW; RIB; SIMULATION; STARVATION; STERNUM; THERMOREGULATION; TIDAL VOLUME; TRACHEA; TRACHEA TEMPERATURE; WATER LOSS;

EVAPORATIVE COOLING; RESPIRATION; SIMULATION; THERMOREGULATION; TRACHEA;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TRACHEA;

EID: 84881252452     PISSN: 15699048     EISSN: 18781519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2013.06.012     Document Type: Article

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