Robert Cieri
High performance computational comparison of complex lung airflow patterns
(batd)May 2018 - Dec 2019
2020
Robert L. Cieri and C. G. Farmer (2020): Computational Fluid Dynamics Reveals a Unique Net Unidirectional Pattern of Pulmonary Airflow in the Savannah Monitor Lizard (Varanus exanthematicus), Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology, American Association for Anatomy, Vol 303, Num 7, pp1768-1791
2019
Robert Cieri (2019): Computational Fluid Dynamics Investigation into Pulmonary Airflow Patterns in Monitor Lizards (Varanidae), 2019 Blue Waters Annual Report, pp342-343
Robert L. Cieri: Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling Reveals a Unique Net-Unidirectional Pulmonary Airflow Patterns in Monitor Lizards (Varanidae)
Blue Waters Symposium 2019, Jun 3, 2019
Following the lizard lung labyrinth
Dec 13, 2019
In their latest study, biologists have discovered that Savannah monitor lizards have lung structures that are a kind of a hybrid system of bird and mammal lungs. The researchers took CT scans of the entire lung labyrinth and used two different supercomputers to simulate airflow patterns at the highest resolution. The software used computational fluid dynamics similar to those used to forecast weather, calculating millions of equations every tenth of a second. The findings show that vertebrate lung evolution is complicated and we have yet to understand the full picture.
Sources:
- https://www.newswise.com/articles/following-the-lizard-lung-labyrinth
- https://interestingengineering.com/savannah-monitor-lizards-have-mammal-and-bird-hybrid-system-for-breathing
- https://phys.org/news/2019-12-savannah-lizards-unique-airflow-pattern.html
- https://www.miragenews.com/following-lizard-lung-labyrinth/
- https://theinfobiz.com/2019/12/15/biologists-discover-that-savannah-monitor-lizards-have-hybrid-lung-structures-medical-net/
- https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=299787
- https://scienceblog.com/513346/some-lizards-have-unique-airflow-pattern-hybrid-of-birds-and-mammals/
