Computational aeroacoustics in flexible conduits with application to biomedical fluid dynamics

Autor: Marco Laudato, Mihai Mihaescu, Elias Zea, Susann Boij
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 153:A194-A194
ISSN: 1520-8524
0001-4966
DOI: 10.1121/10.0018632
Popis: Flexible tubes are simple yet powerful tools for the modeling of respiratory and circulatory systems [1, 2]. In the last decade, access to high-performancecomputational resources has allowed the implementation of realistic numerical models of human vessels based on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) simulations. Interestingly, the recently proven correlation [3] between CFD observables (like the pharyngeal airway's resistance) and clinical data (such as the Apnoea Hypopnea Index in Obstructive Sleep Apnoea patients) suggests a possible development of diagnostic methods based on numerical simulations. This work aims to investigate the extension of these correlations to the aeroacoustics characteristics of flexible conduits by means of a fully coupled FSI numerical model based on the Large Eddy Simulation method. These results have relevant applications to studying diseases of the human upper vocal tract, voice production, obstructive sleep apnoea, and adventitious lung sounds, such as wheezing and crackling. [1] Grotberg, J. B., & Jensen, O. E. (2004). Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech., 36, 121–147. [2] Schwartz, A. R., & Smith, P. L. (2013). The Journal of physiology, 591(Pt 9), 2229. [3] Schickhofer L., Malinen J., Mihaescu M., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. - JASA, 145 (4): 2049–2061, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5095250
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