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The Diffusion of Passive Tracers in Laminar Shear Flow
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The Diffusion of Passive Tracers in Laminar Shear Flow

Published on: May 1, 2018

A Monte Carlo simulation of convective dispersion in the large airways

S H Hobbs, E N Lightfoot

    Respiration Physiology
    |August 1, 1979
    PubMed

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