Performance Analysis of a Miniature Turbine Generator for Intracorporeal Energy Harvesting

Artificial Organs

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Pfenniger, Alois ^a,b,c   Vogel, Rolf ^a,d   Koch, Volker M ^b   Jonsson, Magnus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c BERN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^d Geriatrischer Dienst   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Cardiovascular; Efficiency; Modeling; Shear stress; Tesla turbine

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; HEMODYNAMICS; HYDRAULIC MOTORS; LIFE CYCLE; NUMERICAL MODELS; SHEAR FLOW; TURBINES; TURBOGENERATORS;

ASSIST DEVICE; BATTERY LIFE; BLOOD FLOW; CARDIAC ASSIST; CARDIOVASCULAR; IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICES; MODELING; PERFORMANCES ANALYSIS; SURGICAL INTERVENTIONS; TESLA TURBINES;

SHEAR STRESS;

ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORIOLIS PHENOMENON; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENERGY; FRICTION; GENERATOR; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART OUTPUT; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTRACORPOREAL ENERGY HARVESTING; LAMINAR FLOW; MINIATURE HYDRODYNAMIC TURBINE GENERATOR; POWER SUPPLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR RATE; SHEAR STRESS; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; TORQUE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN;

CARDIAC OUTPUT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MINIATURIZATION; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 84899659364     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/aor.12279     Document Type: Article

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