Numerical Simulation of the Flow Field Within the Aortic Arch During Cardiac Assist

Artificial Organs

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Filipovic, Nenad ^a,b   Schima, Heinrich ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KRAGUJEVAC   (Serbia)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Pulsatile and continuous device; Pump support

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL HEART; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW FIELDS; FLOW PATTERNS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PUMPS; SHEAR STRESS;

AORTIC ARCH; BLOOD FLOW; CARDIAC ASSIST; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS MODELING; DESTINATION THERAPY; PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; PULSATILE AND CONTINUOUS DEVICE; PULSATILE PUMP; PULSATILES; PUMP SUPPORT;

BLOOD VESSELS;

AORTA ARCH; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; SHEAR STRESS;

EID: 79955026597     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2010.01194.x     Document Type: Article

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