Numerical simulation of human breathing and particle transport through a CT-based pulmonary airway geometry

Chronic respiratory illness afflicts more than a billion people worldwide. In recent years computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has been established as a paramount tool for studying treatments of respiratory illnesses. This work investigates physiologically appropriate, lobar-specific boundary conditions for numerical simulation of steady and unsteady flow through a computed tomography (CT) based pulmonary airway geometry. Particle transport is modeled in steady and unsteady flow. Analysis is conducted on flow phenomena and particle transport in both steady and inspiratory flow.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Author dc:creator

• Gruetzemacher, Richard R., III

Contributors dc:contributor

• Arabshahi, Abdollah
• Pankajakshan, Ramesh; Sreenivas, Kidambi; Briley, Roger W.
• College of Engineering and Computer Science

• Respiratory organs -- Computer simulation
• Computational fluid dynamics
• Respiratory organs -- Mathematical models

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• https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en

Language dc:language

English, eng

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https://scholar.utc.edu/theses/149

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholar.utc.edu:theses-1281