Numerical simulation of opening process in a bileaflet mechanical heart valve under pulsatile flow condition

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 245-256

  Shi, Yubing ^a   Zhao, Yong ^a   Hock Yeo, Tony Joon ^a   Hwang, Ned H C ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW RATE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; SAINT JUDE HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; SIMULATION; TIME;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PRESSURE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PULSATILE FLOW; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TIME;

EID: 0037356105     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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