Abstract: Research studies over the last three decades have established that hemodynamic interactions with the vascular surface as well as surgical injury are inciting mechanisms capable of eliciting distal ...

Abstract: The absorption of moderately and highly soluble vapors into the walls of the conducting airways was previously shown to be a transient process over the timescale of an inhalation cycle. However, ...

Abstract: The deposition of ultrafine aerosols in the respiratory tract presents a significant health risk due to the increased cellular-level response that these particles may invoke. However, the effects ...

Abstract: A new law of the wall accounting for curvature effects in swirling axial flows is derived. The influence of the curvature on the turbulence mixing lengths in both axial and tangential directions ...