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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hear Res. 2017 Aug 24;354:73–85. doi: 10.1016/j.heares.2017.08.005

Table IV.

Free-Parameters: Expected Range and Input Values for the Standard Model

PARAMETER UNITS RANGE INPUT VALUE
ME Volume* ml 1–20 10
ME Surface-Area/Volume* /cm 8–30 16
Blood/Mucosa Volume Fraction None 0.01–0.5 0.25
Perfusion Rate MEM Vol/sec 0–10 0.05
CO2 Capacitance Multiplier βB’CO2BCO2 1–10 1
O2 Capacitance Multiplier βB’O2BO2 1–10 1
KFGEg** None 0–1 0.5
ET Opening Frequency /hour 0–60 4
ET Opening Pressure*** daPa 100–1000 500
ET Closing Pressure*** daPa 0–500 100
Ambient Pressure-Time Function daPa/min PATM=f(t) PATM=C
*

From empirical measurement on the human ME done by Swarts and colleagues (Swarts et al., 2010)

**

From empirical measurements on the human ME done by Doyle and colleagues (Doyle et al., 2014)

***

From empirical measures on the human ET done by Doyle and colleagues (Doyle et al., 2013)