Modeling and Simulation of Mucus Flow in Human Bronchial Epithelial Cell Cultures – Part I: Idealized Axisymmetric Swirling Flow
Fig 3
(A) Experimental data of storage (G’) and loss (G”) moduli for 2.5 wt% HBE mucus across a frequency range (symbols), together with the corresponding fit to 5 UCM modes (lines). (B) Viscosity vs. shear rate data (symbols) for 2.5 wt% HBE mucus and corresponding fit to a sum of 5 Giesekus modes (line). The curve shown is the best fit under the condition 0 ≤ α ≤ 0.5. Model parameters are given in Table 1. Data courtesy of Jeremy Cribb and David Hill, UNC-CH.