Excerpt
Contents
Abstract
Acknowledgement
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction
1.1 Ventricular Assist Device
1.2 History of VADs
1.3 Operating Conditions for VAD
1.4 Role of Computational Fluid Dynamics
2 Literature Review
2.1 Blood
2.1.1 Red Blood Cells
2.2 Blood Rheology
2.3 Blood damage
2.4 Numerical Hemolysis Prediction
3 Description of Turbulence Modeling
3.1 RANS/URANS
3.1.1 Shear Stress Transport model
4 Experimental Study
5 Pre-Processing
5.1 Structure of FDA blood pump
5.2 Mesh Information
5.2.1 Mesh Overview
5.2.2 Mesh Generation
6 Computation
7 Results and Discussion
7.1 Convergence
7.2 Pressure Head
7.3 Flow Field
7.4 Wall Shear Stress and Hemolysis Comparison
Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix
A.1 Velocity contour at different cut plane sections of Blood Pump
A.2 Pressure contour at different cut plane sections of Blood Pump
A.3 Eddy Viscosity contour at different cut plane sections of Blood Pump
A.4 Wall Shear Stress at different domains
- Quote paper
- Krishnaraj Narayanaswamy (Author), 2019, Numerical Flow Simulation in FDA's "Critical Path" benchmark blood pump, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/915240
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