Although negligible at large scales, capillary forces may become dominant for submillimetric
objects. Surface tension is usually associated with the spherical shape of small droplets and …

▪ Abstract Almost all vessels carrying fluids within the body are flexible, and interactions
between an internal flow and wall deformation often underlie a vessel's biological function or …

This paper is concerned with the fully coupled ('monolithic') solution of large-displacement
fluid–structure interaction problems by Newton's method. We show that block-triangular …

Mechanical ventilation applies physical stresses to the tissues of the lung and thus may give
rise to ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI), particular in patients with acute respiratory …

We provide a selective review of recent progress in the analysis of several physiological and
physiologically inspired fluid-structure interaction problems, our aim being to explain the …

The interfacial convection in multilayer systems is a widespread phenomenon that is of great
importance in numerous branches of technology, including chemical engineering, space …

In this study, the deformability of airway walls is taken into account to study airflow patterns
and airway wall stresses in the first generations of lower airways in a real lung geometry …

We present a theoretical study of a variant of the classical viscous fingering instability, which
occurs when a high viscosity fluid is displaced by a low viscosity fluid in a Hele-Shaw cell. In …

The delicate structure of the lung epithelium makes it susceptible to surface tension induced
injury. For example, the cyclic reopening of collapsed and/or fluid-filled airways during the …

Surfactant-laden liquid plug propagation and rupture occurring in lower lung airways are
studied computationally using a front-tracking method. The plug is driven by an applied …