A numerical investigation of blood damage in the hinge area of aortic bileaflet mechanical heart valves during the leakage phase

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1468-1485

  Yun, B Min ^a   Wu, Jingshu ^a   Simon, Helene A ^b   Arjunon, Shiva ^d   Sotiropoulos, Fotis ^c   Aidun, Cyrus K ^a   Yoganathan, Ajit P ^b,d  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bileaflet mechanical heart valve; Blood damage modeling; Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Hinge flow; Particulate numerical simulations; Platelet activation; Thromboembolism

Indexed keywords

AORTIC POSITION; AORTIC VALVES; ARTIFICIAL HEART VALVES; BDI MODEL; BILEAFLET; BLOOD DAMAGE; EXPOSURE TIME; FLOW RECIRCULATION; FORCE METHOD; GAP DISTANCES; HINGE DESIGNS; HINGE GEOMETRIES; LARGE SCALE SIMULATIONS; LATTICE-BOLTZMANN METHOD; LOCAL FLOWS; MECHANICAL HEART VALVES; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; NUMERICAL TOOLS; PLATELET ACTIVATION; ST. JUDE MEDICAL; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBUS FORMATION; VELOCITY BOUNDARY CONDITION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DAMAGE DETECTION; DESIGN; PLATELETS; SHEAR STRESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

HEART VALVE PROSTHESES;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PLATELETS; HEART, ARTIFICIAL; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84864553859     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-011-0502-3     Document Type: Article

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