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  2. Dead space (physiology) - Wikipedia

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    This final exhalation occurs in three phases. The first phase (phase 1) has no nitrogen as that is gas that is 100% oxygen in the anatomic dead space. The nitrogen concentration then rapidly increases during the brief second phase (phase 2) and finally reaches a plateau in the third phase (phase 3).

  3. Shunt equation - Wikipedia

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    The Shunt equation (also known as the Berggren equation) quantifies the extent to which venous blood bypasses oxygenation in the capillaries of the lung.. “Shunt” and “dead space“ are terms used to describe conditions where either blood flow or ventilation do not interact with each other in the lung, as they should for efficient gas exchange to take place.

  4. Bohr equation - Wikipedia

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    The only source of CO 2 is the alveolar space where gas exchange with blood takes place. Thus the alveolar fractional component of CO 2, F A, will always be higher than the average CO 2 content of the expired air because of a non-zero dead space volume V d, thus the above equation will always yield a positive number.

  5. VD/VT - Wikipedia

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    In medicine, the ratio of physiologic dead space over tidal volume (V D /V T) is a routine measurement, expressing the ratio of dead-space ventilation (V D) to tidal ventilation (V T), as in physiologic research or the care of patients with respiratory disease. [1]

  6. Nitrogen washout - Wikipedia

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    The dead space can be determined from this curve by drawing a vertical line down the curve such that the areas below the curve (left of the line) and above the curve (right of the line) are equal. Most people with a normal distribution of airways resistances will reduce their expired end-tidal nitrogen concentrations to less than 2.5% within ...

  7. Continuous stirred-tank reactor - Wikipedia

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    Exit age distribution E(t) and cumulative age distribution F(t) functions for a CSTR with dead space. Non-ideal hydraulic behavior is commonly classified by either dead space or short-circuiting. These phenomena occur when some fluid spends less time in the reactor than the theoretical residence time, .

  8. Maxwell construction - Wikipedia

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    The discontinuity in , and other properties, e.g. internal energy, , and entropy,, of the substance, is called a first order phase transition. [12] [13] In order to specify the unique experimentally observed pressure, (), at which it occurs another thermodynamic condition is required, for from Fig.1 it could clearly occur for any pressure in the range .

  9. Lyapunov exponent - Wikipedia

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    The Lyapunov exponents describe the behavior of vectors in the tangent space of the phase space and are defined from the Jacobian matrix = | this Jacobian defines the evolution of the tangent vectors, given by the matrix , via the equation ˙ = with the initial condition () =.