Studies of Turbulence Models in a Computational Fluid Dynamics Model of a Blood Pump

Artificial Organs

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 935-937

  Song, Xinwei ^a,c   Wood, Houston G ^a   Day, Steven W ^a   Olsen, Don B ^b  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b Utah Artificial Heart Institute   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pump; Computational fluid dynamics; Turbulence model

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICES; PUMPS; TURBULENCE MODELS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PUMP; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS MODELING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; DYNAMIC PREDICTION; K-Ε MODEL; LOCAL GRIDS; NEAR-WALL; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; ROTARY BLOOD PUMPS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PUMP; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DYNAMICS; FLUID FLOW; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0242301755     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1594.2003.00025.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (2)

1. Song X, Wood HG, Olsen DB. CFD study of the 4th generation prototype of a continuous flow ventricular assist device. J Biomech Eng (in press).
2. Day SW, McDaniel JC, Wood HG, Allaire PE, Song X, Lemire PP, Miles SD. A prototype HeartQuest ventricular assist device for particular image velocimetry measurements. Artif Organs 2002;26:1002-5.