Laminar and turbulent flow calculations through a model human upper airway using unstructured meshes

DOI10.1002/cnm.939zbMath1127.76070MaRDI QIDQ5433606

N. Massarotti, Perumal Nithiarasu, C.-B. Liu

Publication date: 9 January 2008

Published in: Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/cnm.939

zbMATH Keywords

finite elements; characteristic-based split scheme; Sparlat-Allmaras turbulence model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76F10: Shear flows and turbulence

76M10: Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics

76Z05: Physiological flows

92C35: Physiological flow

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Uses Software

• Spalart-Allmaras

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