Aerosol deposition in human airways during breathing cycle

A numerical model of the aerosol transport and deposition in human airways is presented. The model was acquired from a CT scan a living person and consist of 6-9 bifurcations giving around 100 terminations of the tree. The oral/nasal cavity was not modelled in the presented work. The deposition of t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Forman M., Jícha M., Katolický J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of West Bohemia 2007-11-01
Series:Applied and Computational Mechanics
Subjects:
CFD
Online Access:http://www.kme.zcu.cz/acm/old_acm/full_papers/acm_vol1no2_p052.pdf