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A Numerical Analysis on the Curved Bileaflet Mechanical Heart Valve (MHV): Leaflet Motion and Blood Flow in an Elastic Blood Vessel

  • Bang, Jin-Seok;Choi, Choeng-Ryul;Kim, Chang-Nyung
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.19 no.9
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    • pp.1761-1772
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    • 2005
  • In blood flow passing through the mechanical heart valve (MHV) and elastic blood vessel, hemolysis and platelet activation causing thrombus formation can be seen owing to the shear stress in the blood. Also, fracture and deformation of leaflets can be observed depending on the shape and material properties of the leaflets which is opened and closed in a cycle. Hence, comprehensive study is needed on the hemodynamics which is associated with the motion of leaflet and elastic blood vessel in terms of fluid-structure interaction. In this paper, a numerical analysis has been performed for a three-dimensional pulsatile blood flow associated with the elastic blood vessel and curved bileaflet for multiple cycles in light of fluid-structure interaction. From this analysis fluttering phenomenon and rebound of the leaflet have been observed and recirculation and regurgitation have been found in the flow fields of the blood. Also, the pressure distribution and the radial displacement of the elastic blood vessel have been obtained. The motion of the leaflet and flow fields of the blood have shown similar tendency compared with the previous experiments carried out in other studies. The present study can contribute to the design methodology for the curved bileaflet mechanical heart valve. Furthermore, the proposed fluid-structure interaction method will be effectively used in various fields where the interaction between fluid flow and structure are involved.

Study on Performance Test of Plate Type ER-Valves (평판형 ER-Valve의 성능실험에 관한 연구)

  • Jang S.C.;Yum M.O.;Kim D.T.;Park J.B.
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2002.08a
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    • pp.321-324
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    • 2002
  • Hydraulic valve control the pressure and the How of fluid by the hydraulic oil transfered from pump but the ER fluid consists of solid particles of micrometer in size and insulating oil so in the general hydraulic valve. We invented ER-Valve using ER fluid as working fluid. The ER fluid, working fluid of ER-Valve is a functional fluid to represent the feature of fluid according to strength of electric field. In this research we made our own 4 types of plate type ER-Valve which has same surface but different width and length and then we conducted performance test. We measured flow rate and pressure drop of fluid which is flowing in the ER-Valve according to the electric field strength to conduct this test. We modeling ER-Valve relating to ER-Valve system and yield shear stress according to the strength of electric field. We used the pressure drop according to the strength of electric field by differential pressure gauge in the our own made ER-Valve. This test reviewed experimental the special changes of ER-Fluid in the steady flow condition.

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A Similarity Solution of the Characteristics of Micropolar Fluid Flow in the Vicinity of a Wedge (상사해법을 이용한 쐐기형 물체 주위의 미세 극성유체 유동 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Youn J.
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.23 no.8
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    • pp.969-977
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    • 1999
  • A similarity solution of a steady laminar flow of micropolar fluids past wedges has been studied. The similarity variables found by Falkner and Skan are employed to reduce the streamwise-dependence in the coupled nonlinear boundary layer equations. Numerical solutions of the equations are then obtained using the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method and the distribution of velocity, micro-rotation, shear and couple stress across the boundary layer are obtained. These results are compared with the corresponding flow problems for Newtonian fluid past wedges with various wedge angles. Numerical results show that, keeping ${\beta}$ constant, the skin friction coefficient is lower for a micropolar fluid, as compared to a Newtonian fluid. For the case of constant material parameter K, however, the velocity distribution for a micropolar fluid is higher than that of a Newtonian fluid.

Investigation of hyperbolic dynamic response in concrete pipes with two-phase flow

  • Zheng, Chuanzhang;Yan, Gongxing;Khadimallah, Mohamed Amiine;Nouri, Alireza Zamani;Behshad, Amir
    • Advances in concrete construction
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.361-365
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    • 2022
  • The objective of this study is to simulate the two-phase flow in pipes with various two-fluid models and determinate the shear stress. A hyperbolic shear deformation theory is used for modelling of the pipe. Two-fluid models are solved by using the conservative shock capturing method. Energy relations are used for deriving the motion equations. When the initial conditions of problem satisfied the Kelvin Helmholtz instability conditions, the free-pressure two-fluid model could accurately predict discontinuities in the solution field. A numerical solution is applied for computing the shear stress. The two-pressure two-fluid model produces more numerical diffusion compared to the free-pressure two-fluid and single-pressure two-fluid models. Results show that with increasing the two-phase percent, the shear stress is reduced.

Numerical analysis of the 3D fluid-structure interaction in the sac of artificial heart (인공심장 sac내의 3차원 유체-구조물 상호작용에 대한 수치적 연구)

  • Park M. S.;Shim E. B.;Ko H. J.;Park C. Y.;Min B. G.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2000.05a
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    • pp.27-32
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    • 2000
  • In this study, the three-dimensional blood flow within the sac of KTAH(Korean artificial heart) is simulated using fluid-structure interaction model. The numerical method employed in this study is the finite element commercial package ADINA. The thrombus formation is one of the most critical problems in KTAH. High fluid shear stress or stagnated flow are believed to be the main causes of these disastrous phenomenon. We solved the fluid-structure interaction between the 3D blood flow in the sac and the surrounding sac material. The sac material is assumed as linear elastic material and the blood as incompressible viscous fluid. Numerical solutions show that high shear stress region and stagnated flow are found near the upper part of the sac and near the comer of the outlet during diastole stage.

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Energy transport analysis for the Taylor-Proudman column in la rapidly-rotating compressible fluid (압축성 회전 유동에서의 Taylor-Proudman 기둥의 에너지 전달에 관한 해석)

  • Park Jun Sang;Hyun Jae Min
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2002.08a
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    • pp.329-332
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    • 2002
  • A theoretical study is made of the steady flow of a compressible fluid in a rapidly rotating finite cylinder. Flow is generated by imposing mechanical and/or thermal disturbances at the rotating endwall disks. Both the Ekman and Rossby numbers are small. A detailed consideration is given to the energy budget for a control volume in the Ekman boundary layer. A combination of physical variables, which is termed the energy contents, consisting of temperature and modified angular momentum, emerges to be relevant. The distinguishing features of a compressible fluid, in contrast to those of an incompressible fluid, are noted. For the Taylor-Proudman column to be sustained, in the interior, it is shown that the net energy transport between the solid disk wall and the interior fluid should vanish. Physical rationalizations are facilitated by resorting to the concept of the afore-stated energy content.

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Numerical analysis on heat transfer due to buoyancy force of viscoelastic fluid (점탄성 유체의 부력에 의한 열전달 수치해석)

  • Ahn S. T.;Sohn C. H.;Shin S. H.
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.9-16
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    • 1999
  • The present study investigates flow character and heat transfer behaviors of viscoelastic non-Newtonian fluid in a 2:1 rectangular duct. An axially-constant heat flux on bottom wall and peripherally constant temperature boundary condition(H1) was adopted. The Reiner-Rivlin fluid model is used as the normal stress model for the viscoelastic fluid and temperature-dependent viscosity model is adopted. The present results show a signifiant change of the main flow field which causes a large heat transfer enhancement. This phenomena can be explained by the combined effect of buoyancy, temperature-dependent viscosity and viscoelastic property on the flow.

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A CFD Analysis of the Oil Flow in a Hydraulic Shock Absorber (유압 완층기 내에서의 오일 유동에 대한 CFD 해석)

  • Park, K.T.;Park, T.J.
    • Transactions of The Korea Fluid Power Systems Society
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.20-26
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    • 2008
  • Various types of hydraulic shock absorbers are widely used in many fields because of its numerous advantages. However, in order to design adequate damping characteristics, accurate flow data near the orifices are required essentially. In this paper, a commercial computational fluid dynamics(CFD) code, FLUENT is adopted to investigate the flow characteristics near orifices of a shock absorber. Static pressure and velocity vector distributions, fluid path lines are presented for compression/tension strokes and various piston speeds. In order to validate the result of analysis, the numerically obtained damping forces are compared with those of analytical estimations obtained by modified Bernoulli equation. The results reported herein will provide better understanding of the detailed flow fields within shock absorber, and the CFD analysis method proposed in this paper can be used in the design of other types of hydraulic shock absorber.

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Analysis of Geometric Parameters for Fully Developed Laminar Flow Between Cylinders Arranged in Regular Array (정규배열내의 실린더 사이에서의 완전발달된 층류 유동의 기하학적 계수의 해석)

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    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.25 no.5
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    • pp.1037-1049
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    • 2001
  • Considerable interest has evolved in the flow of non-Newtonian fluids in channels of noncircular cross section in compact heat exchanges. Analytical solution was developed for prediction of the flow rate and maximum velocity in steady laminar flow of any incompressible, time-independent non-Newtonian fluids in straight closed and open channels of arbitrary, but axially unchanging cross section. The geometric parameters and function of shear describing the behavior of the fluid model were evaluated for fluid flow among a bundle of rods arranged in triangular and square array. Numerical values of dimensionless maximum velocities, mean velocities, pressure-drop-flow parameters and friction factors were evaluated as a function of porosity and pitch-to-radius ratio.

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A Study on the Drag Reduction by Shear-thinning Fluid in Turbulent Flow Fields (난류유동장에서 Shear - thinning 유체에 의한 마찰저항 감소에 관한 연구)

  • 차경옥;김재근;오율권
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.126-135
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    • 1997
  • Drag reduction in polymer solutions is the phenomenon where by extremely dilute solutions of high molecular weight polymers exhibit frictional resistance to flow much lower than the pure solvent. This effect, largely unexplained as yet, has attracted the attention of polymer scientists and fluid flow specialists. Although applications are beginning to appear, the principle interest to data has been in attempting to relate the effect to the fluid mechanics of turbulent flow. Drag reduction in two phase flow can be applied to the transport of crude oil, phase change system such as chemical reactor, and pool and boiling flow. But the research on drag reduction in two phase flow is not intensively investigated. Therefore, experimental investigations have been carried out to analyze the drag reduction produced by polymer addition in the single phase and two phase flow system. The objectives of the proposed investigation are primarily in identifying and developing high performance polymer additives for fluid transportations with the benefits of turbulent drag. Also we want to is to evaluate the drag reduction in horizontal flow by measuring pressure drop and mean velocity. Experimental results show higher drag reduction using co - polymer(A611P) then using polyacrylamide (PAAM) and faster degradation using PAAM than using A611P under the same superficial velocity.

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