Effects of tongue position and base circle diameter on the performance of a centrifugal blood pump

Artificial Organs

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 639-645

  Wong, Yew Wah ^a   Chan, Weng Kong ^a   Hu, Wei ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Centrifugal blood pump; Volute radial clearance; Volute tongue position

Indexed keywords

CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS;

CENTRIFUGAL BLOOD PUMP; MEAN VELOCITIES; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; PERFORMANCE; PRESSURE HEADS; RADIAL CLEARANCE; RADIAL FORCES; RADIAL PRESSURE; VOLUTE RADIAL CLEARANCE; VOLUTE TONGUE POSITION;

BLOOD;

ARTICLE; BLOOD PUMP; GEOMETRY; IMPELLER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; VELOCITY;

EID: 34547121435     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2007.00430.x     Document Type: Article

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