Filoche, M.; Felici, M.; Sapoval, B. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 357 (2005) 1, pp. 27-35
Gas exchange at the acinar level involves several physico-chemical phenomena within a complex geometry. A gas transport model, which takes into account both the diffusion into the acinus and the diffusion across the alveolar membrane, is used to understand gas mixing in realistic systems. The...