Simulation of the breathing gases in the airways

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Department of Mathematics, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

In this study, we have simulated the breathing of gases in the human airways, and the simulated equation is solved in two different ways. It is observed that the numerical solution is more complicated in comparison with the analytic one.

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