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Fluid Dynamics in Airway Bifurcations: I. Primary Flows

T. B. Martonen, X. Guan, R. M. Schreck National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and Division of Pulmonary Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA; Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA; General Motors, NAO Research and Development Center, Warren, Michigan, USA
Pages 261-279 | Published online: 01 Oct 2008

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