Numerical Modeling of Anisotropic Fiber Bundle Behavior in Oxygenators

Artificial Organs

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1095-1102

  Bhavsar, Sonya S ^a   Schmitz Rode, Thomas ^a   Steinseifer, Ulrich ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Hollow fiber bundles; Oxygenators

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC MEDIA; ANISOTROPY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FIBERS; FORECASTING; NUMERICAL MODELS; OXYGENATION; POROUS MATERIALS; RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION;

ANISOTROPIC FIBER; FIBRE BUNDLE; FLOW CHANNELS; GAS EXCHANGE; HOLLOW FIBER; HOLLOW FIBER BUNDLE; OXYGENATOR FIBERS; RESIDENCE TIME; SHAPE-OPTIMIZATION; THROMBUS FORMATION;

BLOOD;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ERYTHROCYTE; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; GAS EXCHANGE; OXYGENATOR; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 81855185513     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2011.01365.x     Document Type: Article

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