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A CFD study of a pMDI plume spray
Uncorrected proof ; Asthma is an inflammatory chronic disease characterized by airway obstructions disorders. The treatment is usually done by inhalation therapy, in which pressurized metered-dose inhalers (pMDIs) are preferred devices. The objective of this paper is to characterize and simulate a pMDI spray plume by introducing realistic factors through a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) study. Numerical simulations were performed with Fluent® software, by using a three-dimensional “testbox” for room environment representation. A salbutamol/HFA-134a formulation was used for characterization, whose properties taken as input for the CFD simulations. Spray droplets were considered to be composed by ethanol, salbutamol and HFA-134a. Propellant evaporation was taken into consideration, as well as, drag coefficient correction. Results showed an air temperature drop of 3.3 °C near the nozzle. Also, an increase in air velocity of 3.27 m/s was noticed. The CFD results seem to be in good agreement with Dunbar (1997) data on particle average velocity along the axial distance from the nozzle. ; National Funds-Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, under Strategic Project PEst-C/EME/UI4077/2011 and PEst-OE/EME/299UI0252/2011
A CFD study of a pMDI plume spray
Uncorrected proof ; Asthma is an inflammatory chronic disease characterized by airway obstructions disorders. The treatment is usually done by inhalation therapy, in which pressurized metered-dose inhalers (pMDIs) are preferred devices. The objective of this paper is to characterize and simulate a pMDI spray plume by introducing realistic factors through a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) study. Numerical simulations were performed with Fluent® software, by using a three-dimensional “testbox” for room environment representation. A salbutamol/HFA-134a formulation was used for characterization, whose properties taken as input for the CFD simulations. Spray droplets were considered to be composed by ethanol, salbutamol and HFA-134a. Propellant evaporation was taken into consideration, as well as, drag coefficient correction. Results showed an air temperature drop of 3.3 °C near the nozzle. Also, an increase in air velocity of 3.27 m/s was noticed. The CFD results seem to be in good agreement with Dunbar (1997) data on particle average velocity along the axial distance from the nozzle. ; National Funds-Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, under Strategic Project PEst-C/EME/UI4077/2011 and PEst-OE/EME/299UI0252/2011
A CFD study of a pMDI plume spray
Oliveira, Ricardo Falcão (author) / Ferreira, Ana C. M. (author) / Teixeira, S. F. C. F. (author) / Teixeira, J. Carlos (author) / Marques, Helena C. (author)
2014-01-01
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
690
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