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Inhalation Toxicology
International Forum for Respiratory Research
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Research Article

Flow in a terminal alveolar sac model with expanding walls using computational fluid dynamics

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Pages 669-678 | Received 04 Dec 2009, Accepted 04 Mar 2010, Published online: 13 May 2010

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