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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Aerosol Sci. 2019 Apr 24;134:34–55. doi: 10.1016/j.jaerosci.2019.04.009

Table 3:

Fitted equations for the realistic breathing patterns (MB and NB).

(a) Mouth Breathing (b) Nose Breathing
Fourier Series with 8 Terms
Q=a0+i=18aicos(iwx)+bisin(iwx)
Sum of Sines with 7 Terms
Q=i=17aisin(bix+ci)
i ai bi i ai bi ci
0 −1.462 N/A 1 263.7 0.6369 3.015
1 19.55 60.38 2 330.7 0.1254 −3.727
2 −10.90 −0.9638 3 73.19 4.86 −0.7755
3 −1.6 7.435 4 48.58 7.822 −0.7588
4 −2.737 1.096 5 16.06 13.33 0.03013
5 −2.057 −0.4919 6 253.6 2.011 −0.4039
6 −0.4734 0.7077 7 43.69 10.85 −1.085
7 −0.4042 −0.8452
8 0.08115 0.6936
W=1.561