Fluid-structure interaction modelling of the upper airway with and without obstructive sleep apnea: a review.

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common respiratory disorder associated with the collapse of the upper airway during sleep. OSA may cause oxygen desaturation, arousals from sleep, and daytime sleepiness, in turn affecting quality of life. There is low success rate in existing OSA surgical treatments mainly due to heterogeneity of the OSA population and poor understanding of the mechanism of the upper airway collapse in each individual.

Comment on "Transient response of an acoustic medium by an excited submerged spherical shell" [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 109(6), 2789-2796 (2001)].

A closed form solution was derived previously for the response of a submerged spherical shell when the shell was excited by a spatially distributed, transient load at its inner surface [Zakout (2001). J. Acoust.