%0 Journal Article
%T Air Puff System Fundamentals for Reproducible Eyeblink Conditioning Research
%A Frederick Reitz
%J Methods and Protocols | An Open Access Journal from MDPI
%D 2019
%R https://doi.org/10.3390/mps2010014
%X Air puff systems are at once trivially straightforward and dauntingly complex. On the one hand, they are little but a pressure source, valve, and tube connected together. On the other, the air passing through them is a compressible medium, expanding approximately adiabatically while travelling at high velocity through a compliant tube, and exiting as a turbulent jet with velocity peak and profile varying non-linearly in its near-field. This complexity puts precise mathematical prediction of puff properties out of reach of most labs. There are, however, a number of phenomena fundamental to air puff system design that are worth understanding to a first order of approximation, or at least qualitatively. Using a simplified, ¡°electronic¨Chydraulic analogy¡± model, this paper discusses these phenomena in just enough depth for the reader to confidently specify parts for an air puff delivery system, to measure its key parameters, and/or to describe a given system unambiguously in publications, thus maximizing reproducibility. View Full-Tex
%U https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9279/2/1/14