Blood pumps for  smart cardiopulmonary circulatory support

Researchers : Sungmin Hong, Changkeun Son

Motivation & Objectives

    - The main objective is to a high-performance blood pump.

      : The high performance of blood pump is increased blood pressure efficiency and reduced damage on blood.

    - In order to understand fluid physics inside a blood pump, simulations are performed existing blood pump.

Achievements

    - In order to estimate the damage on blood by the pump, applying the hemolysis model calculating Blood Damage Index (BDI).

      : The eulerian approach for BDI (Garon & Farinas, 2004) is employed.

      : A scalar transport equation derived from BDI is solved.

   -The existing 4 model of blood pump are estimated by vlaues of BDI in various conditions ECMO, VAD and full-load.

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