3-D Simulation of the st. Jude medical bileaflet valve opening process: Fluid-structure interaction study and experimental validation

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 804-813

  Redaelli, Alberto ^a   Bothorel, Helene ^a   Votta, Emiliano ^a   Soncini, Monica ^a   Morbiducci, Umberto ^b   Del Gaudio, Costantino ^b   Balducci, Antonio ^b   Grigioni, Mauro ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; HOUSING; LIQUID; MODEL; PROCEDURES; SIMULATION; VELOCITY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW KINETICS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PROSTHESIS;

BIOMECHANICS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 7444219595     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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