3D Modelling

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Adrian

Has had trouble with the grid independence test, the results haven’t made much sense

Also having trouble with the software

Has 2 prism layers and quite a few cells, and the results are still not quite what adrian is looking for

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Laura

Having trouble getting on to the software as well

Chung: particle modelling of the upper airways would be interesting

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Dominic

Has the upper airways geometry now

Chung: we need to fuse the upper airway geometry to the first geometry set.

Chung: some hard work needs to be done to mesh the upper airways and lower airways together.

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1D modelling

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Charlie: The coding is in currently in the final stages, with over 1000 lines of code so far

Current limitations: not using patient specific lung boundaries, haven't modelled the lobes so far.

This can be done with approximations to lobe boundaries, i.e. a plane section

Dr. Chung: does the centre point data have any more data than the STl file?

No the same number of generations are on the stl file and the centrepoint file

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Daniel

Has been researching elastic wall behaviour’s influence on flow

And also the relationship between lung volume and airway resistance

Lots of data available on this

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Tom

Weren’t able to contact Tom

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General Talk:

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Technical report draft due week 9

Poster deadline week 10

Dr. Chung: The group should meet up more to talk about different project areas.

Adrian: Also need to look at the business background.

3D guys need to meet Talha to sort out their STAR CCM licenses

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After meeting: student group talk

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Technical report due week 9:

We are writing the report in seperate 3D and 1D sections.

We will do this by each of us first making a mini report for our sections

Things like the introduction and conclusion should be written together

We have set a date for individual project Write ups (no more than 1600 words): Monday week 7

This will give us 2 weeks to combine everything for the report

Daniel is emailing Dr. Chung to ask whether a business section needs to be included in the report due in week 9, or whether this just appears in the executive summary.