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

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

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Authors

S Shaheen

K Maqbool

F Gul



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