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- Title
A Novel Integrated Rotor of Axial Blood Flow Pump Designed With Computational Fluid Dynamics.
- Authors
Zhang, Yan; Xue, Song; Gui, Xing-min; Sun, Han-song; Zhang, Hao; Zhu, Xiao-dong; Hu, Sheng-Shou
- Abstract
Due to the smaller size, smaller artificial surface, and higher efficiency, axial blood pumps have been widely applied in clinic in recent years. However, because of its high rotor speed, axial flow pump always has a high risk for hemolysis, which the red blood cells devastated by the shearing of tip clearance flow. We reported a novel design with the integrated blade-shroud structure that was expected to solve this problem by abolishing the radial clearance between blade and casing designed with the techniques of computational fluid dynamics (CFD). However, the numerical simulation result of the newly designed structure showed an unexpected backflow (where flow velocity is reverse of the main flow direction) at the blade tip. In order to eliminate this backflow, four flow passes were attempted, and the expansion angles (which reflect the radial amplification of the flow pass, on the meridional section, and should be defined as the angle between the center line of the flow pass and the axial direction) of the blades of the integrated rotor are 0°, 8°, 15°, and 20°, respectively. In the CFD result, it could be easily found as the expansion angles increased, the backflow was restrained gradually, and was eliminated at last. After numerous “cut and try” circles, the pump model was finally optimized. The numerical simulation of this model also showed a stable hydraulic characteristic.
- Subjects
AXIAL flow pumps; ARTIFICIAL organ design &; construction; HEMOLYSIS &; hemolysins; FLUID dynamics; BLADES (Hydraulic machinery); BLOOD cells; COMPUTER simulation; PREVENTION
- Publication
Artificial Organs, 2007, Vol 31, Issue 7, p580
- ISSN
0160-564X
- Publication type
Other
- DOI
10.1111/j.1525-1594.2007.00425.x