AcuSolve Examples – Blood Pump

 The power law blood damage

model gives excellent
agreement with the data.

Pressure contours on blade surfaces

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LVAD (heart pump!)
 ASAIO Journal – 2007
Development and Validation of a Computational FluidDynamics
Methodology for Simulation of Pulsatile Left Ventricular Assist
Devices
Authors: Richard B. Medvitz*‡, Eric G. Paterson*‡, James W. Kreider†, Keefe B.
Manning†, Arnold A. Fontaine*†, Steven Deutsch*†
Institutional Affiliation: * Applied Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State
University, University Park, Pa 16802

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Example of Mesh Motion for Pump

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Unstructured Mesh Computational velocity magnitude contours and
tangential velocity vectors at 6 mm from the front
face of the LVAD with the mitral and aortic valves
removed .

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Blood/Cancer Cell Interaction
http://www.ensight.com/cutting-edge-cfd-simulations-take-cancer-
research-to-a-new-dimension.html

Meghan Hoskins, a Ph.D. candidate in the Bioengineering program at Penn

State, under the advisement of Robert Kunz, Ph.D. and Cheng Dong,
Ph.D., is examining how cancer cells stick to white blood cells, the
defenders of the blood stream, and how the flow of blood affects this
adhesion. Her work, funded by the National Cancer Institute and the PSU
Applied Research Laboratory, is based on the theory that, as cancer cells
travel through the blood stream, they are attracted to areas where white
blood cells are at work fighting inflammation.

Cancer Cell
Traverses
white blood cell

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Cell Workflow

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Lung Airflow

Figure 2 shows the wall pressure

Figure 1: Virtual 3-D Airway Tree
Geometry
Model which has 54,611 branches
distribution for that 3500 branches. The
scale on the model is -0.08 (blue) to 3.35
(red) Pascals. Meshing and solving of the
full virtual model is currently underway

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 Adominal Aortic Aneurysm N u m C ra ft

国立がんセンター　
がん予防・検診研究センタ
ー
山本　修司　先生
SPIE 2006

Pre-operative Post Operative

解析メッシュ 領域分割数 1 解析メッシュ 領域分割数 1

節点数 177,719 非定常解析 節点数 189,918 非定常解析
要素数 958,738 　 400 steps (4 心 要素 1,015,905 　 400 steps (4 心
４節点四面体 拍） ４節点四面体 拍）
( amira 使用 ) 　 428 MB ( amira 使用 ) 　 456 MB
　 11.1Hr 　 13.1 Hr

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The bloodstream analysis of the cerebral aneurysm
N u m C ra ft
outlet
1

outlet
3

outlet
2

inlet

浜松医科大学　
医学部放射線医学講座
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 Flow Analysis in Cerebral Aneurysm ）
N u m C ra ft

解析メッシュ
節点数 90,398
要素数 385,490
４節点四面体
( amira 使用 )
領域分割数 4
非定常解析
　 300 steps 　 (3
心拍）
　 69.6 MB/cpu
　 1.97 Hr
流線
領域分割数 1
189 MB
6.87 Hr

壁面剪断応力

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 Animation of Flow in Aneurysms

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Blood fill from sending blood vesselN u m C r a f t

External Circulation from heart lung machine

4.1 l/min

The Gifu prefectural Tajimi hospital

heart blood vessel surgery
岐阜県立多治見病院　
心臓血管外科
徳田順之　　先生
送血管の例
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Blood Fill （ continued ）
Mesh Details
nodes 　　 321,678
elements 1,806,203
(4 node tet)

Step1 ： Steady
State run for initial
condition for Step 2
Step2 ： Transient
DES Turb. Model
　　リスタート
　　 100 steps 　　
　　 250 MB/CPU
　　 5.9 Time

3.0 2.0 0.5

m/sec m/sec m/sec
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 Case Study
 Peristaltic Pumps
 Inert/Sterile Fluids
 Biomedical devices to corrosive fluids in chemical industries
 Uses “peristalsis” process
 Tubing under compression causes fluid to flow
 As Tubing returns to natural state, flow is induced to the pu
 An FSI study is required to predict the pump flow characteristics
Compressio

Flow out
n
Restitution

Flow in

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 Peristaltic Pump Model

Structural Model
 Dynamic Explicit Analysis
 Flexible Hose Modelled as Rubber
 Hyperelastic properties
 C =69000, C =173000, D =1.45e-8
10 01 1

 36828 Linear Hexahedral Elements

 Total solution time = 6.1 s
 Angular velocity: 10.472 radians/sec
 Casing and rollers modelled as rigid
 Casing and ends are fixed

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 Peristaltic Pump Model

Fluid Model
 Transient analysis
 Fluid properties to be viscous oil
 Density: 980 kg/m3
 Viscosity: 0.5 kg/ms
 Spalart-Allmaras turbulence model
 72100 Linear Hexahedral Elements
 Inflow: Velocity-inlet condition
 Initial stagnant condition
 Outflow: Pressure-outlet condition
 Outlet set to atmospheric pressure

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Enabling FSI Solutions with Abaqus/CAE
 FSI module available for Abaqus/CAE
 Easy-to-use workflow for FSI
 Module provides specific functionality for defining FSI modules
 CFD Product support
 AcuSolve

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 FSI Workflow

 Define Structural model in CAE

 Geometry
 Mesh
 Define fluid model in CAE
 Geometry
 Mesh
 Define FSI study with AcuSolve
 Define CFD boundary conditions
 Define and associate FSI interface(s)
 Set-up and run Abaqus and AcuSolve
together!

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Post-process the CFD Solution

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Post-process the FSI Solution

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Conclusions
 AcuSolve is a powerful general purpose CFD code
 The premier commercial finite element based CFD solver

 Major focus
 Robustness
 Speed
 Accuracy
 Functionality
 Ease of use
with AcuConsole

 Ideal for engineering and scientific applications

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