Modeling and simulation of blood flow in a sac-type left ventricular assist device

Bio-Medical Materials and Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 229-233

  Najarian, Siamak ^a   Firouzi, Faramarz ^a   Fatouraee, Nasser ^a   Dargahi, Javad ^b  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Left ventricular assist device; Moving membrane; Numerical simulation; Sac type blood pump

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW PATTERNS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; MOVING MEMBRANES; SAC-TYPE BLOOD PUMP;

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DISEASE MODEL; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEART VENTRICLES; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 34347339664     PISSN: 09592989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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