A microfluidic model to study fluid dynamics of mucus plug rupture in small lung airways

Biomicrofluidics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Hu, Yingying ^a,b   Bian, Shiyao ^b   Grotberg, John ^c   Filoche, Marcel ^d   White, Joshua ^b   Takayama, Shuichi ^b   Grotberg, James B ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CELLS; DEFORMATION; DROPS; GELS; MICROFLUIDICS; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; SHEAR THINNING; SILICONES; STRAIN RATE;

GEL CONCENTRATION; GLOBAL STRAIN RATE; MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL; MICROFLUIDIC MODELING; NON-NEWTONIAN PROPERTY; POTENTIAL EFFECTS; SHEAR STRESS MAGNITUDES; SHEAR THINNING EFFECT;

YIELD STRESS;

EID: 84939621060     PISSN: 19321058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4928766     Document Type: Article

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