Thermal analysis of airway mucus clearance by ciliary activity in the presence of inertial forces

Shaheen, S; Maqbool, K; Beg, OA; Gul, F

Abstract

In this study heat transfer effects on cilia induced mucus flow in human airways is presented. The elliptic wave pattern of cilia tips produces metachronal wave which enables the transportation of highly viscous mucus with nonzero inertial forces. Upper Convective Maxwell model is considered as mucus. The governing partial differential equations are transformed from the fixed frame to the wave frame by using Galilean transformation and viscous dissipation is also incorporated in the energy equation. The non-linear governing equations are evaluated by the perturbation technique by using software “MATHEMATICA” and pressure rise is computed by numerical integration. The impact of interested parameters on temperature profile, velocity, pressure rise and pressure gradient are plotted by the graphs. The comparison of velocities due to symplectic and antiplectic metachronal wave are also achieved graphically.

Citation

Shaheen, S., Maqbool, K., Beg, O., & Gul, F. (2021). Thermal analysis of airway mucus clearance by ciliary activity in the presence of inertial forces. SN Applied Sciences, 3(4), 461. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-021-04439-1

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Feb 25, 2021
• Publication Date: Mar 16, 2021
• Deposit Date: Mar 17, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 17, 2021
• Journal: SN Applied Sciences
• Print ISSN: 2523-3971
• Publisher: Springer
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 461
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-021-04439-1
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-021-04439-1
• Related Public URLs: https://www.springer.com/journal/42452
• Additional Information: Additional Information : ** From Springer Nature via Jisc Publications Router ** Licence for this article: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ **Journal IDs: pissn 2523-3963; eissn 2523-3971 **Article IDs: publisher-id: s42452-021-04439-1; manuscript: 4439 **History: published 04-2021; published 16-03-2021; online 16-03-2021; registration 25-02-2021; accepted 25-02-2021; submitted 28-05-2020; Funders : BMC Software (US); Projects : unspecified