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Ventricular Assist Devices are implanted in patients with severe heart failure. | Ventricular Assist Devices (VADs) are implanted in patients with severe heart failure. Today, nearly all VADs are designed as turbomachinery, since they have a higher power density as pulsatile pumps, and therefore can be implanted within the human body. By using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), VADs must be designed and optimised in such a way that they reproduce a physiological pressure increase, to sufficiently supply the body with enough blood flow. Furthermore, they must be designed | ||
==Relevance to Industrial Sector== | ==Relevance to Industrial Sector== | ||
Revision as of 14:34, 21 May 2021
Turbulent Blood Flow in a Ventricular Assist Device
Application Challenge AC7-03 © copyright ERCOFTAC 2021
Description
Introduction
Ventricular Assist Devices (VADs) are implanted in patients with severe heart failure. Today, nearly all VADs are designed as turbomachinery, since they have a higher power density as pulsatile pumps, and therefore can be implanted within the human body. By using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), VADs must be designed and optimised in such a way that they reproduce a physiological pressure increase, to sufficiently supply the body with enough blood flow. Furthermore, they must be designed
Relevance to Industrial Sector
Design or Assessment Parameters
Flow Domain Geometry
Flow Physics and Fluid Dynamics Data
Contributed by: B. Torner — University of Rostock, Germany
© copyright ERCOFTAC 2021