Publication detail

The pressure gradient in the human respiratory tract

CHOVANCOVÁ, M. ELCNER, J.

English title

The pressure gradient in the human respiratory tract

Type

Paper in proceedings (conference paper)

Language

en

Original abstract

Respiratory airways cause resistance to air flow during inhalation and exhalation. The pressure gradient is necessary to transport the air from the mount (or nose) to pulmonary alveoli. The knowledge of pressure gradient (i.e. respiratory airways resistance) is also needed to solve the question of aerosol deposition in the human respiratory tract. The obtained data will be used as boundary conditions for CFD simulations of aerosol transport. Understanding of aerosol transport in the human lungs can help us to determine the health hazard of harmful particles. On the other hand it can be used to set the conditions for transport of medication to the desirable place. This article deals with the description of the mathematical equations defining the pressure gradient and resistance in the bronchial three and describes the geometry used in the calculation.

Keywords in English

Pressure gradient; Respiratory tract

Released

2014-03-25

Publisher

EDP Sciences

ISBN

978-80-260-5375-0

ISSN

2100-014X

Book

EPJ Web of Conferences

Journal

EPJ Web of Conferences

Volume

67

Number

1

Pages from–to

1–6

Pages count

6

BIBTEX


@inproceedings{BUT123167,
  author="Michaela {Chovancová} and Jakub {Elcner}",
  title="The pressure gradient in the human respiratory tract",
  booktitle="EPJ Web of Conferences",
  year="2014",
  journal="EPJ Web of Conferences",
  volume="67",
  number="1",
  pages="1--6",
  publisher="EDP Sciences",
  doi="10.1051/epjconf/20146702047",
  isbn="978-80-260-5375-0",
  issn="2100-014X",
  url="https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/abs/2014/04/epjconf_efm-13_02047/epjconf_efm-13_02047.html"
}