CFC2023

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Haemodynamics of an Idealized Mechanical Heart Valve – Predictions by FVM and SPH

Laha, Sumanta (The University of Manchester)
Fourtakas, Georgios (The University of Manchester)
Das, Prasanta Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)
Keshmiri, Amir (The University of Manchester)

In session: MS2-01C - Computational Techniques for Cardiovascular Blood Flow and FSI Simulations

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In the present study, a 3D CFD analysis has been conducted for the bi-leaflet mechanical heart valve (BMHV) under normal and dysfunction condition where one of the leaflets is immobilised due to the pannus and thrombus formation. Traditional FVM and SPH mesh-free particle-based methods have been adopted for the simulations. A pulsatile velocity is considered as the inlet boundary condition and a pressure pulsation is taken at the outlet. Anatomically reasonable aorta fitted with an idealized 25mm St Jude MHV is chosen for the present simulation. In FVM, a polyhedral mesh with the prism layers was chosen for better accuracy and similar particle sizes have been used for SPH for a fair comparison.