A computational study of the flow through a vitreous cutter

Journal of Biomechanical Engineering

Volumn 132, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Juan, Tingting ^a   Hubschman, Jean Pierre ^b   Eldredge, Jeff D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Immersed boundary method; Vitrectomy; Vitreous; Vitreous cutter

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; CUTTER DESIGN; CUTTING CYCLES; CUTTING RATE; DESIGN REQUIREMENTS; DUTY CYCLES; FINITE DIFFERENCE; FLOW BEHAVIORS; FLOWTHROUGH; FRACTIONAL STEP METHODS; HIGH-FLOW RATE; IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHODS; IN-VITRO; MEAN FLOW; MICROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; NEWTONIANS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PRESSURE VARIATIONS; SALINE SOLUTIONS; SHEAR RESPONSE; TIME-VARYING FLOW; VELOCITY FIELD; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS; VITREOUS CUTTER; VITREOUS HUMOR;

EXPERIMENTS; ORIFICES; SALINE WATER; TURBULENT FLOW;

CUTTING;

ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; FLOW RATE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS BODY; VITREOUS CUTTER; ALGORITHM; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLOW KINETICS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; STATISTICS; VISCOSITY;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; PRESSURE; RHEOLOGY; VISCOSITY; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 78049512892     PISSN: 01480731     EISSN: 15288951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4002796     Document Type: Article

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