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Record Nr.

UNINA9910583356803321

Autore

Goldman Saul

Titolo

Gas bubble dynamics in the human body / / Saul Goldman, J. Manuel Solano-Altamirano, Kenneth M. Ledez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] : , : Academic Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

0-12-810520-8

0-12-810519-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

532.597

Soggetti

Bubbles - Dynamics

Human body - Microbiology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Bubbles in the body -- Driving force of gas-bubble growth and dissolution -- Rates of gas-bubble growth and dissolution in simple liquids -- Estimating the radii and lifetimes of small gas bubbles suspended in simple liquids -- AGEs in scuba diving and in DCS-like problems in breath-hold diving -- Gas bubbles in soft tissue-like solids -- The evils that bubbles do... -- Compartmental decompression models and DCS risk estimation -- Treating the evils that bubbles do -- Gas-bubble dynamics in the treatment of gas-bubble disease.