Effects of Vertical Glottal Duct Length on Intraglottal Pressures and Phonation Threshold Pressure in the Uniform Glottis

According to Titze's 1988 derivations for phonation threshold pressure (PTP), there are a number of important variables that PTP depends upon. A primary one is the vertical glottal duct length T: PTP decreases if T is increased. Changing the length of T, however, may have a significant effect on other variables that PTP depends upon. This study examined the effects of lengthening the vertical uniform glottal duct on the transglottal and intraglottal pressures, and the derived transglottal pressure coefficients, for five glottal diameters (0.01, 0.02, 0.04, 0.08, and 0.16 cm) and three transglottal pressures (500, 1000, and 1500 Pa) for the uniform glottis by using the computational fluid dynamics code Fluent (for laminar, incompressible, two-dimensional flow).

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