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Water and heat exchanges in mammalian lungs
Benoit Haut, Cyril Karamaoun, Benjamin Mauroy +1
A secondary function of the mammals' respiratory system is during inspiration to heat the air to body temperature and to saturate it with water before it reaches the alveoli. Relyi…
Curvature-driven transport of thin Bingham fluid layers in airway bifurcations
Cyril Karamaoun, Haribalan Kumar, Médéric Argentina +2
The mucus on the bronchial wall forms a thin layer of non-Newtonian fluid. One of the roles of mucus is to protect the lungs by capturing inhaled pollutants. It is transported by m…
Murray's law revisited: Quémada's fluid model and fractal trees
Baptiste Moreau, Benjamin Mauroy
In 1926, Murray proposed the first law for the optimal design of blood vessels. He minimized the power dissipation arising from the trade-off between fluid circulation and blood ma…