BACKGROUND Recirculation (R) and access blood flow (Qac) measurements are considered useful indicators of adequate delivery of haemodialysis. It was the purpose of this study to compare measurements of R and Qac obtained by two different techniques which are based on the same principle of indicator dilution, but which differ because of the characteristics of the injection and detection of the d...

BACKGROUND The presence of arterio-venous (A-V) fistula recirculation among hemodialysis (HD) patients markedly decrease adequacy of dialysis. OBJECTIVES The present article summarize some of observations about clinical significance, causes, the most common techniques for measurement, and main source of pitfall in calculation of access recirculation. MATERIALS AND METHODS A variety of liter...

This paper investigates the design of a thermoelectric generator for exhaust gases from internal combustion engines. Experimentally validated CFD methodology was employed. Different issues are studied, such as influence replacement pipe TEG, recirculation produced, and fins. The results show that an enlarged inlet cone reduces pressure drop but more heat is lost across walls, reducing available...

In this research, hydrodynamics of the Bubble Train Flows (BTF) in circular capillaries has been investigated by Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS).The Volume of Fluid Based (VOF) interface tracking method and streamwise direction periodic boundary conditions has been applied. The results show that there exists an appropriate agreement between DNS and experimental correlation results. The re...

It is a well known fact that, dual fuel engines at part loads, inevitably suffer lower thermal efficiency, higher carbon monoxide and unburned fuel emission. The work in this paper is to investigate combustion characteristics of a dual fuel (diesel-gas) engine at part loads, using a single zone combustion model with detailed chemical kinetics for combustion of natural gas fuel. The authors deve...

We investigated the effect of mild whole-body hyperthermia before and after 16 minutes of global cerebral ischemia on metabolic recovery during recirculation in cats using in vivo phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Hyperthermia (temperature 40.6 +/- 0.2 degrees C) was induced greater than or equal to 1 hour before ischemia and was maintained during 1.5-2 hours of recirculati...

Recirculation is an important issue in haemodialysis (HD) patients as increased percent recirculation causes decreased dialysis delivery of the patients. The purpose of the study was to determine the amount and factors of recirculation in those patients. The study was a cross sectional one carried in the Department of Nephrology, Dhaka Medical College and Hospital during October 2010 to Septemb...

Flow recirculation zones and shear rate are associated with distinct pathogenic biological pathways relevant to thrombosis and atherogenesis. The interaction between stenosis severity and lesion eccentricity in determining the length of flow recirculation zones and peak shear rate in human coronary arteries in vivo is unclear. Computational fluid dynamic simulations were performed under resting...

Abstract. Mesoscale ocean processes are prevalent in many parts of the global oceans and may contribute substantially to meridional movement heat. Yet earlier surveys temperature fluxes heat transport (HT) have not formally distinguished between mesoscale large-scale contributions, or they defined eddy contributions based on temporal rather than spatial characteristics. This work uses filtering...