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5.1 Introduction<br />

Chapter 5 Experimental Validation<br />

In this chapter, setups developed for the fluid and thermal experimental validations are<br />

described and explained. These include steady fluid, dynamic fluid, steady thermal and<br />

dynamic thermal validations. The dynamic experiments need a dynamically fluctuating<br />

breathing signal which is provided by a lung simulator. Outputs from models will be<br />

compared with experiment results.<br />

5.2 Experimental validation of the fluid dynamic part<br />

This section focuses on the fluid dynamic validation. There are two subsections, one<br />

under steady state flow and the other under patient breathing-added fluctuating flow.<br />

5.2.1 Fluid dynamic model under steady flow<br />

The outputs from this experiment include pressure drop along the HADT, airflow<br />

velocity in HADT and bias vent hole discharge coefficient. All these outputs were<br />

tested over the CPAP pressure setting range. The experimental setup consists of a<br />

HC600 CPAP unit, a HC365 chamber, a flowmeter (NDD Ultrasonic flow sensor) and a<br />

pressure transducer (Honeywell Precision Pressure Transducer PPT0001DWW2VA-A)<br />

as well as the softwares for the flow meter and pressure sensor which have been<br />

described in Chapter 2.<br />

5.2.1.1 Pressure drop along HADT<br />

Figure 5.1 is a schematic diagram of experiment setup for testing the pressure drop<br />

along the HADT. The mask is sealed so the air can only go away through the bias vent<br />

holes. A calibrated pressure sensor is used to measure the pressure drop. The thin tube<br />

of the pressure transducer for higher pressure (port P1) is inserted in the HADT near the<br />

chamber and another (port P2) is put right downstream of the HADT. An ultrasonic<br />

flowmeter is located between the downstream pressure measuring point and the short<br />

connecting tube. This connecting tube has the same cross sectional geometry as the<br />

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