Data package accompanying the publication with the above title in PNAS Nexus, which considers the clearance of the respiratory tract of larger animals. This is cleared by sweeping bundled mucus strands along the airway surface. They are produced in submucosal glands and, upon emerging from these glands, the long axis of the bundled strands is oriented along the cilia-mediated flow towards the oral cavity. However, after release, the bundled strands are found to have turned orthogonal to the flow, which maximizes their clearance potential. With a minimal numerical model we showed that adhesive interactions between the bundled mucus strands and mucus threads tethered to goblet cells can reorient the bundled-strand.
The data package contains the source codes for the numerical study of model bundled mucus strands interacting with model goblet cells (C++), including initialization of the goblet cells. In addition, it contains the data underlying each figure in both the main text and supplemental information, distributed in folders with appropriate labelling. All parts are provided with readme files (.txt) in ASCII format.
