Mechanism for cavitation in the mechanical heart valve with an artificial heart: Nuclei and viscosity dependence

Artificial Organs

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 41-46

  Lee, Hwansung ^a   Taenaka, Yoshiyuki ^a   Kitamura, Soichiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cavitation bubble; Closing velocity; Fluid viscosity; Mechanical heart valve; Squeeze flow

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL HEART; GLYCEROL; HEART; HEART VALVE PROSTHESES; HIGH SPEED CAMERAS; PRESSURE DROP; VALVES (MECHANICAL); VIDEO CAMERAS; VISCOSITY;

CAVITATION BUBBLE; CAVITATION INTENSITY; CLOSING VELOCITY; FLUID VISCOSITY; MECHANICAL HEART VALVES; OCCURRENCE PROBABILITY; SQUEEZE FLOW; TAP WATER; TESTING FLUIDS; VALVE-CLOSING VELOCITY;

CAVITATION;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART; EXPERIMENTATION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; VISCOSITY; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; MATERIALS TESTING; MITRAL VALVE; PROSTHESIS;

MURINE HEPATITIS VIRUS;

GLYCEROL; WATER;

CARDIAC OUTPUT; GLYCEROL; HEART RATE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART, ARTIFICIAL; HEMORHEOLOGY; MATERIALS TESTING; MITRAL VALVE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; WATER;

EID: 18744388099     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2004.29001.x     Document Type: Article

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