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Physiological fluid dynamics: a survey?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2006

M. J. Lighthill
M. J. Lighthill
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
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Abstract

Section 1 is in the nature of a general survey of fluid flows within the human body : including the lungs (airflow in the airways and the special characteristics of the pulmonary blood circulation), the general systemic circulation of the blood, and the urinary tract. Problems of the microcirculation, including blood flow in the narrower capillaries, gas exchange with the terminal airways (alveoli), and exchange of gas and nutrients with peripheral tissue, are treated in the more specialized second section, which describes in some detail modern views concerning peripheral resistance.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 52 , Issue 3 , 11 April 1972 , pp. 475 - 497
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© 1972 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

This general survey was the author's contribution to a wide-ranging course on biomechanics given as part of the 2nd 1971 session of the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences at Udine, Italy. The whole course is in the process of publication by Springer Verlag.

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