Vorticity dynamics of a bileaflet mechanical heart valve in an axisymmetric aorta

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Dasi, L P ^a   Ge, L ^b   Simon, A H ^c   Sotiropoulos, F ^b   Yoganathan, P A ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FLOW STRUCTURE; KINEMATICS; LAMINAR FLOW; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PULSATILE FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX SHEDDING;

AXISYMMETRIC AORTA; HEART VALVE; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY; SHEAR LAYER;

VORTICITY;

DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FLOW STRUCTURE; KINEMATICS; LAMINAR FLOW; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PULSATILE FLOW; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VORTEX SHEDDING; VORTICITY;

EID: 34447303325     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2743261     Document Type: Article

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