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Numerical modeling of the air flow in the human nasal cavity with simulation of application of the clinical method of active anterior rhinomanometry

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The air flow in the human nasal cavity is numerically modeled with the use of the clinical method of measuring of the nasal cavity capacity. Results obtained in this study offer an explanation for the contradiction between the computed data and data obtained during clinical measurements.

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  1. Khristianovich Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Siberian Branch, Russian academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    V. M. Fomin, V. L. Ganimedov, M. I. Muchnaya, A. S. Sadovskii & V. I. Shepelenko

  2. Novosibirsk State Regional Clinical Hospital, Novosibirsk, 630087, Russia

    M. N. Mel’nikov

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Correspondence to V. L. Ganimedov.

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Original Russian Text © V.M. Fomin, V.L. Ganimedov, M.N. Mel’nikov, M.I. Muchnaya, A.S. Sadovskii, V.I. Shepelenko.

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Translated from PrikladnayaMekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 58–66, January–February, 2012.

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Fomin, V.M., Ganimedov, V.L., Mel’nikov, M.N. et al. Numerical modeling of the air flow in the human nasal cavity with simulation of application of the clinical method of active anterior rhinomanometry. J Appl Mech Tech Phy 53, 49–55 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021894412010075

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