Smoothed particle hydrodynamics method applied to pulsatile flow inside a rigid two-dimensional model of left heart cavity

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1121-1143

  Shahriari, S ^a   Kadem, L ^a   Rogers, B D ^b   Hassan, I ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Left heart ventricle; Moderate Reynolds number; Oscillating and pulsatile flows; Particle resolution; Smoothed particle hydrodynamics

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR FLOW; COMPRESSIBILITY EFFECTS; COMPUTATIONAL CODES; FIRST-ORDER; FLUID PROPERTY; HEART CAVITIES; LEFT HEART VENTRICLE; LEFT VENTRICLES; LID DRIVEN CAVITY FLOW; MESHFREE PARTICLE METHOD; MODEL COMPLEXES; ORDER OF CONVERGENCE; PRESSURE AMPLITUDES; PULSATILITY; REFERENCE DATA; RIGID MODEL; SECOND ORDERS; SMOOTHED PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMICS; SMOOTHED PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMICS METHODS; SOUND SPEED; SPH SIMULATION; TWO DIMENSIONAL MODEL; WOMERSLEY NUMBERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL STORAGE; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; PULSATILE FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; PHYSIOLOGY; PULSATILE FLOW; VALIDATION STUDY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART VENTRICLES; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PULSATILE FLOW; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84859047259     PISSN: 20407939     EISSN: 20407947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.2482     Document Type: Article

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