Three-dimensional study of the effect of two leaflet opening angles on the time-dependent flow through a bileaflet mechanical heart valve

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 235-241

  King, M J ^a   David, T ^a   Fisher, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CarboMedics; CFD; Computational fluid dynamics; Heart valve; Model; Numerical; St. Jude; Three dimensional; Time dependent

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; LAMINAR FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEWTONIAN FLOW; NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VORTEX FLOW; WAKES;

BILEAFLET OPENING ANGLES; HEART VALVES;

HEMODYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEMODYNAMICS; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIOPHYSICS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0031126287     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4533(96)00066-5     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Cape, e. G., Yoganathan, A. P. and Levine, R. A., A new theoretical model for the non invasive quantitative of mitral regurgitation. Journal of Biomechanics, 1990, 23, 27-331.
2. Bluestein, D., Einav, S. and Hwang, N. H., A squeeze flow phenomenon at the closing of a bileaflet mechanical heart valve prosthesis. Journal of Biomechanics, 1994, 27, 1369-1378.
3. Chandran, K. B., Pulsatile flow past a St. Jude Medical bileaflet heart valve. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 1985, 89, 743-749.
4. Woo, Y.-R. and Yoganathan, A. P., Pulsatile flow velocity and shear stress measurements on the St. Jude valve prosthesis. Scandinavian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 1986, 20, 15-28.
5. Gross, J. M., Shenner, C. D. and Hwang, N. W., Vortex shedding in bileaflet heart valve prostheses. Transactions of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs, 1988, 34, 845-850.
6. Fatermi, R. S. and Chandran, K. B., An in vitro study of the St. Jude Medical and Edwards Duromedics bileaflet valve using laser anemometry. Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 1989, 111, 298-302.
7. McQueen, D. M. and Peskin, C., Computer-assisted design of butterfly bileaflet mechanical heart valves for the mitral position. Journal of Computational Fluids, 1985, 82, 289-297.
8. Lei, M., Van Steenhoven, A. A. and Van Campen, D. H., Experimental and numerical analyses of the steady flow field around an aortic Bjork-Shiley standard valve prostheses. Journal of Biomechanics, 1991, 3, 213-222.
9. Black, M. M., Hose, D. R., Lamb, C. J., Lawford, P. V. and Ralph, S. J., In vitro heart valve flow testing. Steading versus pulsatile flow. Journal of Heart Valve Disease, 1994, 3, 212-215.
10. King, M. J., Experimental and computation studies of flow through a bileaflet mechanical heart valve. Ph.D. thesis, University of Leeds, UK, 1994.
11. King, M. J., Corden, J., David, T. and Fisher, J. A., Three dimensional, time dependent analysis of flow through bileaflet mechanical heart valves. Comparison of experimental and numerical results. Journal of Biomechanics, 1996, 29, 609-618.
12. Shapira, M. and Degani, D., Stability and the existence of multiple solutions for viscous flow in suddenly enlarged channels. Computational Fluids, 1990, 18, 239-258.
13. King, M. J., David, T. and Fisher, J., An initial parametric design study on fluid flow through bileaflet mechanical heart valves using computational fluid dynamics. Journal of Engineering in Medicine, 1994, 208, 63-71.