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. 2020 Jan 7;17(2):380. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17020380

Table 2.

Flow rate distribution at different lobes of a 17-generation model [99] compared to earlier models (Horsfield et al. (1971) solved analytical equation for flow rate distribution and detail can be found from their study)

Total Flow Rate Distribution (%)
Region Cohen et al. (1990) 7.5 (lpm) Islam et al. (2017c) 7.5 (lpm) Horsfield et al. (1971)
Left lower 24.5 25.14 24.9
Left upper 14.9 15.34 20.5
Right lower 32.1 36.17 23.2
Right middle 8.3 11.01 9.6
Right upper 20.2 12.48 21.7
Left lung 39.4 40.48 45.4
Right lung 60.6 59.66 54.6