脑动静脉畸形供血动脉内压力测量准确性的分析

对脑动静脉畸形供血动脉内压力测量的准确性进行了定量的分析,分析结果认为,以介入导管方法测量脑动脉畸形患者供血动脉内压力时,导管的影响可以导致测量结果偏低,这一结论支持了脑动静脉畸形患者低压灌注的程度一般不易于导致部分脑组织缺血的观点。     

浅谈动脉流体动力学分析

就我们所熟知,绝大部分正常动脉流,其血液的流动特性是属于层流范围,但随着弯曲和分 支部分会产生血液流之二次回流区,进而形成所谓近似非稳态流及紊流. 因此动脉流体的特 性会随动脉外形及条件的改变而改变. 在某些情形下,异常动脉的血液动力特性会造成动脉 的病变. 因此,近年来动脉血液流体的特性的研究,常着重于异常动脉的血液动力特性所形 成剪应力和病变部位动脉粥状硬化关系的探讨. 动脉血液流动经常包含分离流或二次回流运动,而这是流体力学的分析或数值模拟最困难的 部分. 有关分离流或二次回流的研究包括正常血管流和异常血管流,藉由二次回流的模拟与 测量可以观察血管病变的形成与演变,其中最受注目探讨题目是窄化血管如粥状斑块相关的 血液流动分析. 将回顾二维和三维、稳态、非稳态之动脉血流与窄化血管相关的几何外形作模拟研究和 实验. 并提供对血液动力学的研究方向,以作为未来医疗诊断与发展相关器材之参考.     

弯曲动脉的血流动力学数值分析

利用计算流体力学的理论和方法对弯曲动脉中的血流动力学进行数值分析，是研究心血管疾病流体动力学机理的一种行之有效的方法。本文将升主动脉、主动脉弓和降主动脉联系起来作为弯曲动脉几何模型，给出了血液流动的边界条件以及计算条件。根据生理脉动流条件，对狗的弯曲动脉几何模型内发展中的血液流动进行了有限元数值模拟，并利用可视化方法对血液流动的轴向速度、二次流、壁面切应力等计算结果进行了分析。研究结果表明，在弯管内侧壁处，同时存在主流方向和二次流方向的回流，此处容易形成涡流。弯管内侧壁比外侧壁的壁面切应力具有更强的脉动性。     

近年来对血管力学性能的探讨

Burton是研究血管力学的物理学家。在四十年代就已经用物理的方法来讨论生理现象,在生理界的贡献很大。他测量了大动脉、中动脉、小动脉、微动脉、微血管以及微静脉、静脉、大静脉等的尺寸,大动脉的直径为2.5厘米,壁厚为2毫米。小动脉的直径为30微米,     

动脉粥样硬化晚期斑块局部应力的流固耦合分析及体外反搏作用干预机制的研究

生物机械力被普遍认为在动脉粥样硬化晚期斑块进程及最终破裂中起着重要的作用. 本文的目的是研究血流灌注、动脉内压、斑块组织和材料特性等因素对斑块局部流动切应力 及斑块结构应力 水平的影响,同时评价临床中的非介入辅助循环疗法 —— 体外反搏 对斑块局部应力水平的干预作用. 采用结合猪动物模型在体测量及三维流固耦合数值仿真的研究方法. 结果显示,当斑块狭窄率一定时 (50%),斑块的流动切应力水平主要由血流灌注决定;而斑块结构应力主要取决于动脉内压及纤维帽 厚度. 只有在纤维帽足够薄的情况下,斑块的材料特性才对斑块结构应力有显著影响;当纤维帽最薄同时脂质池材料最软时,临界斑块壁面应力 因子达到极值的 257.72 kPa (正常生理状态) 及 300.20 kPa (体外反博状态). 由于最大壁面应力、临界斑块壁面应力 及全局最大斑块壁面应力 三个应力因子中,只有临界斑块壁面应力 明显受纤维帽厚度和脂质池材料特性的影响,因此 其可能与斑块进程的关联最为紧密. 此外,体外反博作用明显提高了晚期斑块的应力水平,这是否会给斑块进程及重构带来慢性的影响,需要作更深入的研究.      

动脉粥样硬化晚期斑块局部应力的流固耦合分析及体外反搏作用干预机制的研究

生物机械力被普遍认为在动脉粥样硬化晚期斑块进程及最终破裂中起着重要的作用.本文的目的是研究血流灌注、动脉内压、斑块组织和材料特性等因素对斑块局部流动切应力及斑块结构应力水平的影响,同时评价临床中的非介入辅助循环疗法——体外反搏对斑块局部应力水平的干预作用.采用结合猪动物模型在体测量及三维流固耦合数值仿真的研究方法.结果显示,当斑块狭窄率一定时(50%),斑块的流动切应力水平主要由血流灌注决定;而斑块结构应力主要取决于动脉内压及纤维帽厚度.只有在纤维帽足够薄的情况下,斑块的材料特性才对斑块结构应力有显著影响;当纤维帽最薄同时脂质池材料最软时,临界斑块壁面应力因子达到极值的257.72 k Pa(正常生理状态)及300.20 k Pa(体外反博状态).由于最大壁面应力、临界斑块壁面应力及全局最大斑块壁面应力三个应力因子中,只有临界斑块壁面应力明显受纤维帽厚度和脂质池材料特性的影响,因此其可能与斑块进程的关联最为紧密.此外,体外反博作用明显提高了晚期斑块的应力水平,这是否会给斑块进程及重构带来慢性的影响,需要作更深入的研究.     

分枝动脉脉搏流的数值模拟

本文考虑到血液粘度与动脉管壁的非线性特性,利用特征线法数值求解了主动脉和一根分枝动脉(桡动脉)中的脉搏流。得到的桡动脉压力波形与实测波形相似,而且改变某些生理参数能得到平缓脉、弦脉和滑脉所对应的波形,从而为解释中医脉象机理提供了一种方法,或许有可能通过脉搏波的分析求研究动脉系统的病变。     

一种确定均匀动脉壁面切应力的非线性方法

从Ling和Atabek提出的``局部流'理论出发，提出一种利用测量血液黏度、管轴上 的血流速度、压力和管径波形计算均匀动脉管壁切应力的非线性方法. 将这种方法与柳兆荣 等提出的利用测量血液黏度、管轴上的血流速度和平均管径计算切应力的线性方法比较，结 果表明，当管壁脉动幅度较小时，两种方法计算的压力梯度、流速剖面和管壁切应力差别较 小；而当管壁脉动幅度增大时，两种方法计算的压力梯度、流速剖面和管壁切应力差别增大. 对于小幅脉动均匀动脉，用线性方法计算管壁切应力有较高的精度；而对于大变形 均匀动脉，则需要考虑非线性因素对管壁切应力的影响. 由于作为输入量的血液黏度、轴心 血流速度、压力波形和管径波形可在活体上通过无损伤或微损伤的检测方法得到， 所提出的计算切应力的方法为在体或离体研究切应力与动脉重建的关系提供了方法学基础.     

动脉中脉动流的准二维分析与数值计算

本文考虑了血液的菲牛顿流动特性,对血液在动脉管系中的脉动流建立了准二维流动模型。利用有限差分方法得到了动脉管系内非牛顿流体的准二维不定常流动的数值解。并以人体五根主要动脉所组成的动脉管系为例,进行了详细的数值计算。计算结果表明,在动脉的某些典型位置上。计算所得的理论波形与实测波形是相似的。     

局部扩张动脉管血液振荡流的切应力分布

本文求解局部缓慢扩张动脉管中血液振荡流的基本方程，得到血管内血液的流速与压力梯度的关系。通过导出压力梯度沿局部扩张管轴向的变化特性。建立利用扩张段上游血管均匀段中心流速波形确定局部扩张管中血液流的速度和切应力分布的方法，文章以人体颈动脉余弦扩张为例进行分析。详细讨论了局部扩张对血管壁切应力及其梯度分布的影响。数值结果表明，在与刚性均匀管中管壁切应力沿轴向保持不变不同，在局部扩张段，管壁切应力将随着血管半径的增大而减小，因而管壁切应力梯度一般不为零，甚至在某些位置达到相当大的数值。另外，随着血管扩张程度的增加，管壁切应力还将进一步减小，而且管壁切应力梯度也将进一步增大，血管扩张导致管壁切应力的这些变化将直接影响血管壁的结构和功能，使其产生适应性的变化。     

Response of blood flow through an artery under stenotic conditions

This paper presents an analytical study on the behavoiur of blood flow in an artery having a stenosis. This is basically formulated through the use of a suitable mathematical model. The arterial segment under consideration is simulated by an anisotropically elastic cylindrical tube filled with a viscous incompressible fluid representing blood. The analysis is carried out for an artery with mild local narrowing in its lumen forming a stenosis. Particular emphasis has been paid to the effect of the surrounding connective tissues on the motion of the arterial wall. Blood is treated as a Newtonian fluid. The analysis is restricted to propagation of small amplitude harmonic waves, generated due to the flow of blood whose wave length is large compared to the radius of the arterial segment. The effect of the shape of stenosis on the resistance to blood flow has been well illustrated quantitatively through numerical computations of the resulting expressions. A quantitative analysis is also made for the variation of the phase velocity, as well as the velocity of wave propagation and the flow rate, in order to illustrate the applicability of the model.     

Flow regime effects on non-cavitating injection nozzles over spray behavior

This paper deals with the influence of flow regime (laminar, transition or turbulent) on the internal flow behavior, and how it affects the spray development in diesel nozzles. In particular, the research described here aims at studying and quantifying the internal flow regime effects on the spray behavior. With this purpose, internal flow results, based on mass flow rate and momentum flux measurements performed on three different tapered nozzles and which helped to determine the flow regime, has been taken into account as a point of departure for the spray behavior analysis. Thus, in this work, spray macroscopic visualization tests have been performed and analyzed which clearly revealed a change in the behavior of the angle and penetration of the spray related to the change of the flow nature. Moreover, with all the experimental data available, it has been possible to relate macroscopic parameters of the spray with those describing the internal flow (momentum and effective velocity) or the geometry of the nozzle (length or diameter) through correlations.     

脉动流条件下动脉狭窄血管内脂质浓度极化现象的计算机数值模拟

在脉动流条件下,用计算机数值模拟的方法对低密度脂蛋白(LDL)在动脉狭窄血管段内的质量传输进行了研究。计算结果表明．无论是在定常流还是在脉动流条件下．LDL都将聚积于血管狭窄处峰口附近的流动分离点,LDL壁面浓度在此处最高。在脉动流条件下,LDL在血流受扰动区的聚积高于定常流的值;而且．流动分离点处LDL壁面浓度峰值覆盖的区域也宽于定常流。本文所揭示出的LDL在血管狭窄处的质量传输现象可能在动脉粥样硬化的局部性和动脉狭窄的形成中起着很重要的作用。     

Efficient implementation of the proper outlet flow conditions in blood flow simulations through asymmetric arterial bifurcations

We present an efficient implementation of the proper (in vivo) outlet boundary conditions in detailed, three‐dimensional (3D) and time‐periodic simulations of blood flow through arteries. This is achieved through the intermediate use of an approximate ‘simulant’ model of the outlet pressure/flow relationship corresponding to the full 3D and time‐dependent numerical simulation. This model allows us to efficiently couple the 3D outlet pressure/flow conditions to the equivalent relations due to the downstream arterial network, as obtained from a one‐dimensional approximate model in the form of Fourier frequency impedance coefficients. An adjustable time‐periodic function correction term in the simulant model requires input from the full 3D model that has to run iteratively until convergence. The advantage of the proposed numerical scheme is that it decouples the upstream detailed simulation from the downstream approximate network model offering exceptional versatility. This approach is demonstrated here in a series of detailed 3D simulations of blood flow, performed using the commercial software FLUENT?, through an asymmetric arterial bifurcation. Two cases are considered: first a healthy system patterned after the left main coronary arterial bifurcation, and second a diseased case where an occlusion has developed in one of the daughter vessels, resulting in strengthening the asymmetry of the bifurcation. Rapid convergence of the iterative process was achieved in both cases. Subtle changes occur in the shear patterns of the daughter vessels, whereas the flow distribution is quite different. In the presence of a stenosis additional regions of low shear develop due to inertial effects. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Influence of Hall current and Joule heating on entropy generation during electrokinetically induced thermoradiative transport of nanofluids in a porous microchannel

A comprehensive theoretical study of entropy generation during electrokinetically driven transport of a nanofluid is of prime concern in the paper. The flow is considered to take place on a wavy channel under the action of an external transverse magnetic field and an external pressure gradient. Navier slips at the walls of the channel and thermal radiation have been taken into account in the study. The theoretical study has been carried out by developing a mathematical model by taking into account the effects of Joule heating, viscous dissipation, and the transverse magnetic field on heat transfer during the electrokinetic transport of the fluid. The derived analytical expressions have been computed numerically by considering the nanofluid as a mixture of blood and ferromagnetic nanoparticles. Variations in velocity, streaming potential, temperature distribution, Nusselt number, and Bejan number associated with the electrokinetic flow in capillaries have been investigated by the parametric variation method. The results have been presented graphically. The present investigation reveals that streaming potential decreases due to the Hall effect, while for the cooling capacity of the microsystem,we find an opposite behavior due to the Hall effect. The study further reveals that the fluidic temperature is reduced due to increase in the Hall current, and thereby thermal irreversibility of the system is reduced significantly. The results presented here can be considered as the approximate estimates of blood flow dynamics in capillaries during chemotherapy in cancer treatment.     

Some experiments on the effect of isolated protuberances on flow through tubes

At various locations in the arterial system, plaques, or small relatively isolated protuberances, can develop on the inner wall of the vessel and project into the lumen. A number of investigators have suggested that the development and growth of these protuberances is related to the flow in the vicinity of the protuberance. In this study, the conditions under which the flow separates from an isolated protuberance located in a cylindrical tube were investigated. The critical Reynolds number at which separation first takes place for a given protuberance was determined. A series of tests was performed for steady flow of a Newtonian fluid through a rigid tube in which protuberances of various sizes were inserted. The results of the tests show the effect of the protuberance height and shape on the separation characteristics. In general, the results indicate that separation takes place at relatively small values of the Reynolds number; values that commonly occur in the arterial system, so that this phenomenon may be important in the study of the “coupling” between blood flow and arterial lesions.     

Properties of the iodine molecule relevant to laser-induced fluorescence experiments in gas flows

Laser-induced fluorescence of iodine seed molecules can be used for both flow visualization and accurate measurements of gasdynamic properties. This paper gives an introductory review of the use of iodine in experimental fluid mechanics, including basic formulas for saturated and non-saturated fluorescence (excited with narrowband or broadband lasers), line shape, line strength and quenching behavior. Techniques for the seeding of the molecules into the gas flow and the safe handling of the gas are discussed. Finally, a simple numerical example is given for the calculation of absorption and fluorescence signals with discussion of the measurement of gasdynamic properties.     

Laminar jet contraction and velocity distribution in immiscible liquid-liquid systems

The flow behavior of a Newtonian liquid jet injected vertically into an immiscible Newtonian liquid phase is analyzed. Boundary-layer type approximations are used to simplify the general equations, and an approximate momentum-integral type numerical solution is obtained. This solution predicts the velocity distribution in each phase and the jet radius. The effects on jet behavior of the five dimensionless groups needed to characterize the gravitational, interfacial tension and viscous forces are shown. In particular the importance of the continuous phase viscosity is demonstrated. Experimental measurements of jet radius confirm the essential features of the analysis and illustrate the shortcomings of the approximate solution.