Numerical investigation of the performance of three hinge designs of bileaflet mechanical heart valves

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3295-3310

  Simon, Hélène A ^a   Ge, Liang ^c   Sotiropoulos, Fotis ^d   Yoganathan, Ajit P ^a,b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Design parameters; Fluid mechanics; Optimization; Physiologic conditions; Pivot; Prosthetic heart valve; Pulsatile numerical simulations

Indexed keywords

DESIGN PARAMETERS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGIC CONDITIONS; PIVOT; PROSTHETIC HEART VALVE;

BLOOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTACTS (FLUID MECHANICS); DESIGN; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDS; HEART; HEART VALVE PROSTHESES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PHYSIOLOGY; STRESSES; THERMOELECTRICITY; VALVES (MECHANICAL);

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HEART VALVE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ANIMALS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVES; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 78149280982     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-010-0086-3     Document Type: Article

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