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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Insect Respiration"”.
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Patterns of Hemolymph Pressure Related to Tracheal Tube Collapse in the Beetle Pterostichus commutabulis
… convective gas exchange in multiple orders of insects. The underlying mechanism driving this phenomenon is not known. Among other things, tracheal tube collapse could be caused by either direct impingement of trachea or by a difference of pressure gradients between the intra-tracheal air and …
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Material Characterization of Insect Tracheal Tubes
The insect respiratory system serves as a model for both robust microfluidic transport and mate- rial design. In the system, the convective flow of gas is driven through local deformations of the tracheal network, a phenomenon that is dependent on the unique structure and material properties of the …
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Structural and Physical Characterization of Insect Flow Systems
… geometry, kinematics, and physical properties of insect internal structures that make up the respiratory and circulatory systems. This characterization is necessary to better understand how these systems function to transport fluids at the microscale, and ultimately, how we might computationally …