Thin-film coupled fluid-solid analysis of flow through the Ahmed™ glaucoma drainage device

Journal of Biomechanical Engineering

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 776-781

  Stay, Matthew S ^a   Pan, Tingrui ^a   Brown, J David ^b   Ziaie, Babak ^a   Barocas, Victor H ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite Element Method; Intraocular Pressure; Lubrication Theory; Von K rm n Plate Theory

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW INTERACTIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PATIENT MONITORING; POISSON RATIO; PRESSURE DROP; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; THIN FILMS;

DRAINAGE DEVICES; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LUBRICATION THEORY; VON KÁRMÁN PLATE THEORY;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

AQUEOUS HUMOR FLOW; ARTICLE; FILM; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOW RATE; GEOMETRY; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANT; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SIMULATION; STEADY STATE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AQUEOUS HUMOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA DRAINAGE IMPLANTS; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROSTHESIS DESIGN;

EID: 18744414635     PISSN: 01480731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1993662     Document Type: Article

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