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6 lectures on: Mechanistic modeling of airway response and physiological insights: mechanistic basis of airway hyperresponsiveness; response of the airways to aerosolized methacholine and intravenous methacholine; modeling the contraction dynamics of ai

5 lectures on: Lung poromechanics models and digital twins: fundamentals of poromechanics; lung macro-poro-mechanics; lung micro-poro-mechanics, micro-macro relations; tracking of thoracic images; surrogate lung modeling through interpretable machine le

5 lectures on: Engineering respiratory physiology in vitro with organs-on-chips: introduction to in-vitro and organs-on-a-chip models; lung microenvironment: bio-physical and -chemical cues, alveolus-on-a-chip; latest developments in lung-on-a-chip; towa

6 lectures on: Computational rheology of mucus: introduction to rheology; linear viscoelasticity; nonlinear viscoelasticity; stochastic dynamics of complex fluids; hierarchical modeling; mucus as a viscoelastic material.

5 lectures on: Reduced-order models of small-airway biomechanics: thin-film models of airway surface liquid; interfacial rheology and surfactants; bubbles and liquid plugs in airways; models of airway closure and airway reopening; non-Newtonian rheology

5 lectures on: Numerical simulations of small-airway biomechanics: numerical methods for respiratory flow; numerical methods for multiphase flow; Newtonian airway closure with and without surfactant; Newtonian airway reopening with and without surfactan