Multiscale image-based modeling and simulation of gas flow and particle transport in the human lungs

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems Biology and Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 643-655

  Lin, Ching Long ^a   Tawhai, Merryn H ^b   Hoffman, Eric A ^c  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BREATHING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION; DISPERSION; FLOW RATE; FUNCTIONAL RESIDUAL CAPACITY; GAS FLOW; GEOMETRY; GLOTTIS; HUMAN; LAMINAR FLOW; LARYNX; LUNG; LUNG VOLUME; SHEAR STRESS; THERMODYNAMICS; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY; TRACHEA; TURBULENT FLOW; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; VELOCITY;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; GASES; HUMANS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LUNG; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84881657954     PISSN: 19395094     EISSN: 1939005X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wsbm.1234     Document Type: Article

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