The Impact on Today's Society
Anna Georgieva's work includes the modeling of the airflow and gas uptake
in the nasal passages of rats and humans. She uses CFD (Computational
Fluid Dynamics) to model the noses and airflow and has built a replica of
a human nose to study the airflow through them as well. Georgieva's work
in this area has found that the inhalation of formaldehyde leads to nasal
cancer in rats at 6 parts per million and higher. This type of modeling
can help researchers to figure out what kind of damage is done by
different levels of certain gases. Currently, researchers at the Chemical
Industry Institute of Toxicology are using this type of modeling to study
the nasal passages of rats as well and are studying the differences
between the anatomies of rats and humans in order to apply the results
found in the rats to humans as well. This type of research could lead to
a greater understanding of the effect that certain gases have on our
bodies.
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