Numerical Investigation of Flow Characteristics in the Obstructed Realistic Human Upper Airway

Figure 2

The experimental validation. (a) The axial velocity contours for obstructed HUA model. The dash line is the location of LDA measurement. (b) The measured axial velocity profiles in five cross-sections. (c) The comparison between measured and calculated velocity profile. Here, the axial velocity means the velocity in the -axis direction.

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