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On the fluid dynamics of the aortic valve

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2006

F. K. Wippermann
F. K. Wippermann
Affiliation:
Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Fachbereich Mechanik, D-6100 Darmstadt, FRG
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Abstract

An aortic-valve model is developed, having a quadratic cross-section, two rigid cusps and two wedge-shaped aortic sinuses. The flow through this valve is assumed to be one-dimensional, just as the flow behind the cusps should be one-dimensional. The resulting model equations are two nonlinear ordinary differential equations of second order for the valve opening area as a function of time in two different ranges.

This model allows the size of the aortic sinus to be varied; it also permits a computation of the pressure at both sides of the cusps (unlike previous models of this kind, which consider the flow behind the cusps as stagnant). The computed valve motion due to this pressure difference is in good agreement with experimental results, although no vortex with circular streamlines is postulated in the aortic sinuses. Obviously such vortices trapped in the sinuses are not important for the valve closure, which is controlled solely by the flow deceleration.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 159 , October 1985 , pp. 487 - 501
Copyright
© 1985 Cambridge University Press

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