Development of a CFD urethral model to study flow-generated vortices under different conditions of prostatic obstruction

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-23

  Pel, Johan J M ^a   Van Mastrigt, Ron ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CFD; Non invasive urodynamics; Recirculation zone; Urethral noise; Vortices

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; UROLOGY;

BLADDER NECK; BLADDER OUTLET OBSTRUCTIONS; CONDITION; NON-INVASIVE URODYNAMIC; NONINVASIVE METHODS; RECIRCULATION ZONES; URETHRAL NOISE; URODYNAMICS; WALL SHEAR STRESS; WALL-SHEAR STRESS;

VORTEX FLOW;

ARTICLE; BLADDER; BLADDER NECK; BLADDER PRESSURE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; NOISE; PERINEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATE DISEASE; PROSTATE OBSTRUCTION; SHEAR STRESS; URETHRA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHEAR STRENGTH;

HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROSTATIC DISEASES; SHEAR STRENGTH; URETHRA; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 34247517467     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: 13616579     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/28/1/002     Document Type: Article

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