A ventricular assist device (VAD), which is a miniaturized axial flow pump from the point of view of mechanism, has been designed and studied in this report. It consists of an inducer, an impeller, and a diffuser. The main design objective of this VAD is to produce an axial pump with a streamlined, idealized, and nonobstructing blood flow path. The magnetic bearings are adapted so that the impe...

Abstract The paper focuses on implementing the wall model developed by Manhart, in Reynolds Averaged Navier - Stokes (RANS) turbulence models used field of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). This considers influence streamwise pressure gradient addition to existing usual CFD codes. In present work, two RANS numerical simulations are carried out using k-ω Shear Stress Transport (SST) an asymmet...

It is quite well known that the diffusers are required for efficient conversion of the dynamic head generated by the impeller in a centrifugal fan. Hence the flow into the diffuser passage plays a crucial role in determining the efficiency of conversion. The flow in the region bounded by the impeller exit and the diffuser entry i.e. the radial clearance space is generally considered to be highl...

The results from a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) study on the effect of air supply diffuser type and exhaust location in a typical animal research laboratory are presented. The results show that low-level exhausts produce higher temperatures in the room and cages, but the best in-cage ventilation (lowest CO 2 concentrations) compared with ceiling or high-level exhausts. Further, the study ...

background: various variance reduction techniques such as forced detection (fd) have been implemented in monte carlo (mc) simulation of nuclear medicine in an effort to decrease the simulation time while keeping accuracy. however most of these techniques still result in very long mc simulation times for being implemented into routine use. materials and methods: convolution-based forced detectio...