Modeling the Stimulation of Vestibular Hair Cell Bundles Using Computational Fluid Dynamics and Finite Element Analysis

Computational fluid dynamics and finite element analysis were employed to study vestibular hair cell bundle mechanics under physiologic stimulus conditions. CFD was performed using ANSYS CFX and FEA utilized a custom MATLAB model. Nine varieties of hair cell bundles were modeled using tip-forcing on...

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Main Author: Welker, Joseph Robert
Other Authors: Engineering Science and Mechanics
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: Virginia Tech 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77187
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-09052012-223245/