Fig. 9.
The quantitative affects of the elastic modulus of alveolar tissue, thickness of hypophase, and the particle size on maximum indentation, umax, as a function of surface tension γ. A: effect of Young's elastic modulus and particle size. B: effect of the thickness of the hypophase and particle size. Top: absolute value of displacements. Bottom: displacements normalized to the particle size. All calculations are performed for Fγ at γcrit.