Computational flow modeling in hollow-fiber dialyzers

Artificial Organs

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 590-599

  Eloot, Sunny ^a   De Wachter, Dirk ^a   Van Tricht, Ilse ^a   Verdonck, Pascal ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Backfiltration; Blood viscosity; Computational fluid dynamics; Dialyzer; Ultrafiltration

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; PROTEINS; VISCOSITY;

BACKFILTRATION; BLOOD VISCOSITY; COMPUTATIONAL FLOWS; DIALYSATES; DIALYZER; FINITE VOLUME MODELING; FLOW MODELLING; HAEMATOCRIT; HOLLOW FIBER DIALYZER; NAVIER STOKES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

PLASMA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CAPILLARY; DIALYSATE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMODIALYSIS; HOLLOW FIBER; LABORATORY TEST; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; ONCOTIC PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR RATE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; ULTRAFILTRATION; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CAPILLARIES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HEMATOCRIT; HEMORHEOLOGY; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RENAL DIALYSIS; ULTRAFILTRATION; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 0035985047     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1594.2002.07081.x     Document Type: Article

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