Browsing by Subject "inhalation"
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An efficient computational fluid-particle dynamics method to predict deposition in a simplified approximation of the deep lung
(2018)High-fidelity simulations of the complete airway tree are still largely beyond current computational capabilities. Towards large-scale simulations of the human lung, the current study introduces a numerical methodology to ...
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Experimental methods for flow and aerosol measurements in human airways and their replicas
(2018)Recent developments in the prediction of local aerosol deposition in human lungs are driven by the fast development of computational simulations. Although such simulations provide results in unbeatable resolution, significant ...
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In silico assessment of mouth-throat effects on regional deposition in the upper tracheobronchial airways
(2018)Regional deposition of inhaled medicines is a valuable metric of effectiveness in drug delivery applications to the lung. In silico methods are now emerging as a valuable tool for the detailed description of localized ...
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Particle deposition in a realistic geometry of the human conducting airways: Effects of inlet velocity profile, inhalation flowrate and electrostatic charge
(2016)Understanding the multitude of factors that control pulmonary deposition is important in assessing the therapeutic or toxic effects of inhaled particles. The use of increasingly sophisticated in silico models has improved ...