Fundamental Medical and Engineering Investigations on Protective Artificial Respiration A Collection of Papers from the DFG Funded Research Program PAR /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Klaas, Michael (Editor), Koch, Edmund (Editor), Schröder, Wolfgang (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design, 116
• Subjects: Engineering.; Respiratory organs > Diseases.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Fluid mechanics.; Biomedical engineering.; Engineering Fluid Dynamics.; Biomedical Engineering.; Pneumology/Respiratory System.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.

This volume contains a collection of papers from the research program “Protective Artificial Respiration (PAR)”. In 2005 the German Research Association DFG launched the research program PAR which is a joint initiative of medicine and fluid mechanics. The main long-term objective of this program is...

Table of Contents:

• Advanced Multi-Scale Modelling of the Respiratory System
• Analysis of the Flow in Dynamically Changing Central Airways
• Cell Physiology and Fluid Mechanics in the Pulmonary Alveolus and its Capillaries
• Experimental and numerical investigation on the flow-induced stresses on the alveolar-epithelial-surfactant-air interface
• Fluid mechanical equilibrium processes in a multi-bifurcation model
• In vivo microscopy and analysis of regional ventilation in a porcine model of acute lung injury
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Computational Fluid Dynamics of High Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation (HFOV)
• The effect of unsteadiness on particle  reposition in human upper and lung airways
• Transport at air-liquid bridges under high-frequency ventilation.