| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 180, 2018
EFM17 – Experimental Fluid Mechanics 2017
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| Article Number | 02054 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Contributions | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201818002054 | |
| Published online | 04 June 2018 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201818002054
Large-Eddy Simulation of Internal Flow through Human Vocal Folds
1
Institute of New Technologies and Applied Informatics, Technical University of Liberec 1, Studentska 2, 461 17 Liberec, Czech Republic
2
Institute of Thermodynamics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Dolejskova 5, 182 00 Prague 8, Czech Republic
* Corresponding author: martin.lasota@tul.cz
Published online: 4 June 2018
The phonatory process occurs when air is expelled from the lungs through the glottis and the pressure drop causes flow-induced oscillations of the vocal folds. The flow fields created in phonation are highly unsteady and the coherent vortex structures are also generated. For accuracy it is essential to compute on humanlike computational domain and appropriate mathematical model. The work deals with numerical simulation of air flow within the space between plicae vocales and plicae vestibulares. In addition to the dynamic width of the rima glottidis, where the sound is generated, there are lateral ventriculus laryngis and sacculus laryngis included in the computational domain as well. The paper presents the results from OpenFOAM which are obtained with a large-eddy simulation using second-order finite volume discretization of incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. Large-eddy simulations with different subgrid scale models are executed on structured mesh. In these cases are used only the subgrid scale models which model turbulence via turbulent viscosity and Boussinesq approximation in subglottal and supraglottal area in larynx.
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