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ARTIFICIAL ORGANS
Volume 32, Issue 4, Pages 342-348Publisher
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2008.00552.x
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centrifugal blood pump; hemodynamic; numerical simulation; wall shear stress
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In the development of a ventricular assist device, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis is an efficient tool to obtain the best design before making the final prototype. In this study, different designs of a centrifugal blood pump were developed to investigate flow characteristics and performance. This study assumed the blood flow as being an incompressible homogeneous Newtonian fluid. A constant velocity was applied at the inlet; no slip boundary conditions were applied at device wall; and pressure boundary conditions were applied at the outlet. The CFD code used in this work was based on the finite volume method. In the future, the results of CFD analysis can be compared with flow visualization and hemolysis tests.
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