311 Irani Oxi Engineering Complex
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, American University of Beirut
Reduced Order Modeling of Gases Exchange and Transport in the Human Body
Investigators
issam lakkis, principal investigator
alan shihadeh
robert habib
salah zeineddine
Master students
ali yehia, Masters 2015-present
elias mkanna, Masters, 2013-2015
ibrahim chamseddine, Masters, 2011-2013
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Undergraduate Student Researchers
sally arawi
hind hajjar
matthew hobeiche
rawane issa
The AUB Pulmonary Model couples :
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Lung Mechanics dynamic model predicts the air flowrate and lung volume as a function of pressure.
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Modeling gases transport in the airways
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Modeling species transport across the alveolar membrane
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Modeling gases exchange with the blood flowing pulmonary capillaries taking into account the oxygen and carbon dioxide dissociation curves
Future plans :
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Accounting for other species
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Modeling gases exchange between the blood and different tissue.
lung mechanics model: the pressure-volume hysteresis for a baby boy, a 35 years old man, and a 75 yeras old man.
Oxygen and Carbon dioxide partial pressure (mmHg) in the blood exiting the pulmonary capillaries as a function of time under normal breathing conditions of a baby boy, 35 years old man, and a 75 years old man.
