Laringe digital
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2017-11-15
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Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da USP
Universidade de São Paulo
Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos
Universidade de São Paulo
Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos
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Este trabalho descreve um modelo matemático para simulação da laringe humana durante a fonação. O objetivo foi produzir uma técnica computacional de grande escala de processamento para capturar os fenômenos fisiológicos que ocorrem na laringe durante a vocalização e servir de base para estudos mais aprofundados sobre esta importante estrutura do corpo humano. Usando o método dos elementos finitos como base para discretizar as equações dos tecidos musculares da laringe e das equações de Navier-Stokes, e um modelo de descrição da colisão entre as pregas vocais, o sinal glotal foi obtido a partir de diferentes geometrias de laringes com diferentes propriedades viscoelásticas. Os resultados confirmaram a teoria mioelástica-aerodinâmica que descreve a dinâmica da fonação, reproduzindo inclusive fenômenos fisiológicos que os modelos existentes são incapazes de simular. Estudos adicionais foram feitos para verificar a viabilidade do modelo para simular algumas doenças que danificam a laringe.
This work describes a mathematical model to simulate the human larynx during a phonation. The objective was to produce a large-scale computational technique to capture several physiological phenomena that take place on the larynx during the vocalization and to assist further studies about this important structure of the human body. Using the finite element methods as the way to discretize the muscle tissue equations of the larynx and the Navier-Stokes equations and a model to describe the collision between both vocal folds, the glottal signal for different larynx geometries with different viscoelastic properties was obtained. The results confirmed the myoelastic-aerodynamic theory which describes the dynamic of the phonation, also reproducing physiologic phenomena that current models are unable to simulate. Additional studies were conducted to confirm the feasibility of the model to simulate some diseases that affect the larynx.
This work describes a mathematical model to simulate the human larynx during a phonation. The objective was to produce a large-scale computational technique to capture several physiological phenomena that take place on the larynx during the vocalization and to assist further studies about this important structure of the human body. Using the finite element methods as the way to discretize the muscle tissue equations of the larynx and the Navier-Stokes equations and a model to describe the collision between both vocal folds, the glottal signal for different larynx geometries with different viscoelastic properties was obtained. The results confirmed the myoelastic-aerodynamic theory which describes the dynamic of the phonation, also reproducing physiologic phenomena that current models are unable to simulate. Additional studies were conducted to confirm the feasibility of the model to simulate some diseases that affect the larynx.
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Laringe, Simulação, Processamento digital da fala, Dinâmica computacional dos fluidos, Dinâmica de estruturas, Engenharia biomédica, Problema de contato, Método dos elementos finitos, Simulation, Larynx, Biomedical engineering, Finite element methods, Digital speech processing, Contact problem, Computational fluid dynamics, Structure dynamics