The Effect of Airway Wall Motion on Surfactant Delivery
Author:
Halpern D.1, Bull J. L.2, Grotberg J. B.2
Affiliation:
1. Department of Mathematics, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 2. Biomedical Engineering Department, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Abstract
Soluble surfactant and airway surface liquid transport are examined using a mathematical model of Marangoni flows which accounts for airway branching and for cyclic airway stretching. Both radial and longitudinal wall strains are considered. The model allows for variation of the amplitude and frequency of the motion, as may occur under a variety of ventilatory situations occurring during surfactant replacement therapy. The soluble surfactant dynamics of the thin fluid film are modeled by linear sorption. The delivery of surfactants into the lung is handled by setting the proximal boundary condition to a higher concentration compared to the distal boundary condition. Starting with a steady-state, nonuniform, surfactant distribution, we find that transport of surfactant into the lung is enhanced for increasing strain amplitudes. However, for fixed amplitude, increasing frequency has a smaller effect. At small strain amplitudes, increasing frequency enhances transport, but at large strain amplitudes, increasing cycling frequency has the opposite effect.
Publisher
ASME International
Subject
Physiology (medical),Biomedical Engineering
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