Ventricular assist devices (VADs) provide long-and short-term support to chronically ill heart
disease patients; these devices are expected to match the remarkable functionality of the …

Implantable ventricular assist devices give hope of a permanent clinical solution to heart
failure. These devices, both pulsatile‐and continuous‐flow, are presently used as medium …

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 …

Intravascular application of microaxial blood pumps as heart assist devices requires a
maximum in size reduction of the pump components. These limitations affect the design …

To establish an efficient design process for centrifugal blood pumps, the results of
computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis were compared to the results of flow …

To establish quantitative, efficient design theories for centrifugal blood pumps,
computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analyses were compared to the results of flow …

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between local flow conditions and
the hemolysis level by integrating hemolysis tests, flow visualization, and computational fluid …

Wall shear stress on the pump casing cover was measured using a surface‐mounted hot‐
film sensor. In addition, the shear stress distribution in the pump was qualitatively …

A persistent challenge facing the quantitative design of turbodynamic blood pumps is the
great disparity of spatial scales between the primary and auxiliary flow paths. Fluid …

A correlation study was conducted among quantitative flow visualization analysis,
computational fluid dynamic analysis, and hemolysis tests regarding the flow in a centrifugal …