Over the past few decades, our understanding of the fluid mechanics characterizing the
pulmonary acinus of the lungs has been fundamentally revisited. In the present paper, we …

The entire luminal surface of the lungs is populated with a complex yet confluent,
uninterrupted airway epithelium in conjunction with an extracellular liquid lining layer that …

We conduct a computational fluid dynamics simulation to investigate the behaviors of bubble
breakup in a microfluidic T-junction using volume-of-fluid method to represent the interface …

The liquid–liquid distribution and droplet dynamics in branching T-junction microchannels
were studied experimentally. The droplet flow patterns in the main channel are divided into …

Aqueous microdroplet generation involving high inertial air flow inside a T-junction
microchannel was studied numerically. The volume of fluid method was employed to track …

Mucus clearance from the airways is vital to reduce the risk of infection and to improve
pulmonary function. The removal of mucus is propelled either by a rhythmic ciliary motion or …

Convective respiratory flows in the pulmonary acinus and their influence on the fate of
inhaled particles are typically studied using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) or scaled …

Mucus hypersecretion is a common pathophysiological manifestation of several obstructive
airway diseases in which the mucociliary clearance is impaired, and the airflow generated …

Confined gas–liquid droplet microflows present a lot of new perspectives for microfluidic
systems that require the presence of a gaseous phase. In addition to the benefits associated …

In this paper, we investigate both experimentally and theoretically the dynamics of a liquid
plug driven by a cyclic periodic forcing inside a cylindrical rigid capillary tube. First, it is …