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International Forum for Respiratory Research
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Research Article

Simulation of bronchial mucociliary clearance of insoluble particles by computational fluid and particle dynamics methods

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Pages 593-605 | Received 12 Feb 2013, Accepted 12 Jun 2013, Published online: 13 Aug 2013

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