Grants and Contributions:

Title:

Aerosol Deposition Measurements and Numerical Simulations in Extra-thoracic Airways using the Respimat® Inhaler with an ODAPT(TM) Add-on Mask Adapter

Agreement Number:

EGP

Agreement Value:

$25,000.00

Agreement Date:

Apr 25, 2017 -

Organization:

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Location:

Ontario, CA

Reference Number:

GC-2017-Q1-00440

Agreement Type:

Grant

Report Type:

Grants and Contributions

Additional Information:

Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year. (2017-2018 to 2018-2019)

Recipient's Legal Name:

Matida, Edgar (Carleton University)

Program:

Engage Grants for Universities

Program Purpose:

MMSI (McArthur Medical Sales Inc., Rockton, ON) developed an add-on adapter to connect the Respimatx000D
inhaler to commercially available masks that will facilitate the inhalation of ashtma medication by certainx000D
patients, normally seniors and children, who may normally lack coordination between actuation and inhalation.x000D
The effect of introducing the adapter (and mask) on the inhalation performance (medication delivery to thex000D
lungs) will be investigated in-vitro (indirectly using idealized mouth-throat-trachea replicas) and comparedx000D
against the efficiency of the Respimat inhaler alone. Deposition numerical simulations usingx000D
Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations or DES (Detached Eddy Simulation) for the single phasex000D
flow and Lagrangian random walk eddy interaction models (EIMs) for the particulate phase will also bex000D
performed and the results will be validated against the experimental data.