A portable, low-resistance puff topography instrument for pulsating, high-flow smoking devices

Alan Shihadeh1, Charbel Antonios, Sima Azar

  • 1Department of Mechanical Engineering, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon. as20@aub.edu.lb

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