...Flávia Zinani; Sérgio Frey The flow of viscoplastic liquids is studied via a finite element stabilized method. Fluids, such as some food products, blood, mud, and polymer solutions, exhibit viscoplastic behavior. In order to approximate this class of liquids, a mechanical model, based...

...John M. Sankovic; Jaikrishnan R. Kadambi; Mehul Mehta; William A. Smith; Mark P. Wernet A full-size acrylic model of a rotary blood pump was developed in order to utilize Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) to make measurements of the fluid velocities and turbulent stresses throughout the device...

...Xinwei Song; Amy L. Throckmorton; Houston G. Wood; James F. Antaki; Don B. Olsen This study explores a quantitative evaluation of blood damage that occurs in a continuous flow left ventricular assist device (LVAD) due to fluid stress. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis is used to track...