Title :
Numerical simulation of blood flow near a heart valve
Author :
Huang, Z.J. ; Abdallah, S. ; Tarbell, J.M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Chem. Eng., Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, USA
Abstract :
A numerical simulation procedure developed to simulate blood flow in the vicinity of artificial heart valves is presented. The distribution of shear rate in the flow field and its profile on the valve leaflet, which cannot be measured in experiments, is obtained from the numerical simulation results. It shows that the maximum shear rate occurs at the tip of the valve leaflet and the affected region is quite small
Keywords :
cardiology; haemodynamics; physiological models; heart valve; maximum shear rate; numerical simulation procedure; shear rate distribution; valve leaflet; Blood flow; Computational geometry; Computational modeling; Heart valves; NASA; Numerical simulation; Postal services; Publishing; Pulse measurements; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Bioengineering Conference, 1990., Proceedings of the 1990 Sixteenth Annual Northeast
Conference_Location :
State College, PA
DOI :
10.1109/NEBC.1990.66274
