▪ Abstract Almost all vessels carrying fluids within the body are flexible, and interactions
between an internal flow and wall deformation often underlie a vessel's biological function or …

Mechanical ventilation is indispensable in support of patients with respiratory failure who are
critically ill. However, use of this technique has adverse effects, including increased risk of …

Airway collapse and reopening due to mechanical ventilation exerts mechanical stress on
airway walls and injures surfactant-compromised lungs. The reopening of a collapsed …

▪ Abstract The field of respiratory flow and transport has experienced significant research
activity over the past several years. Important contributions to the knowledge base come …

The interfacial convection in multilayer systems is a widespread phenomenon that is of great
importance in numerous branches of technology, including chemical engineering, space …

Mice with allergically inflamed airways are widely used as animal models of asthma, but
their relevance for human asthma is not understood. We, therefore, examined the time …

Reexpansion of collapsed lung creates intrapulmonary shear forces. In an earlier study we
showed that application of a negative end-expiratory airway pressure (NEEP) to normal …

Anaesthesia causes a respiratory impairment, whether the patient is breathing
spontaneously or is ventilated mechanically. This impairment impedes the matching of …

We performed a theoretical investigation of the progression of a finger of air through a liquid-
filled flexible-walled channel-an initial model of pulmonary airway reopening. Positive …