Shear flow over a self-similar expanding pulmonary alveolus during rhythmical breathing

DOI10.1017/S0022112099007375zbMath0990.76100OpenAlexW2163150774MaRDI QIDQ4494496

Howard Brenner, Akira Tsuda, James P. Butler, I. Emanuel, Shimon Haber

Publication date: 6 February 2001

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112099007375

zbMATH Keywords

self-similarityspherical capchaotic mixingtoroidal coordinatesacinar fluid mechanicsalternating shear flowrhythmically expanding spherical alveolusrigid hemispherical caritysteady quasi-linear Stokes equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biomechanics (92C10) Physiological flows (76Z05)

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