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Simulating the Nasal Cycle with Computational Fluid Dynamics
November 2020 • Ruchin Patel, Guilherme J. M. Garcia, Dennis O. Frank‐Ito, Julia S. Kimbell, John S. Rhee
(1) Develop a method to account for the confounding effect of the nasal cycle when comparing pre- and post-surgery objective measures of nasal patency. (2) Illustrate this method by reporting objective measures derived from computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models spanning the full range of mucosal engorgement associated with the nasal cycle in two subjects.