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ArticleBioengineering (Basel, Switzerland)2017

An In Silico Subject-Variability Study of Upper Airway Morphological Influence on the Airflow Regime in a Tracheobronchial Tree.

Yu Feng, Jianan Zhao, Xiaole Chen, Jiang Lin

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Article in Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Yu FengSchool of Chemical Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA. yu.feng@okstate.edu.
Jianan ZhaoSchool of Chemical Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA. jianan.zhao@okstate.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-6276-8961
Xiaole ChenSchool of Energy and Environment, Southeast University, Nanjing 210018, China. xlc@seu.edu.cn.
Jiang LinZhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China. melinj@163.com.

Funding

ZFC3H1 Regulation of Host Defense and Influenza A Virus PathogenesisP20GM103648 · NIGMS · OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY STILLWATER · PI PATRAUCHAN, MARIANNA M. A. · 2013 to 2022
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NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM103648
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Determining the impact of inter-subject variability on airflow pattern and nanoparticle deposition in the human respiratory system is necessary to generate population-representative models, useful for several biomedical engineering applications. Thus, the overall research objective is to quantitatively correlate geometric parameters and coupled transport characteristics of air, vapor, and nanoparticles. Focusing on identifying morphological parameters that significantly influence airflow field and nanoparticle transport, an experimentally validated computational fluid-particle dynamics (CFPD) model was employed to simulate airflow pattern in three human lung-airway configurations. The numerical results will be used to generate guidelines to construct a representative geometry of the human respiratory system.

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computational fluid-particle dynamics (CFPD)inter-subject variabilitylung airflow regime

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PMID29144436
PMCPMC5746757

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