• 한국전산유체공학회지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.34-40
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• 2004

It is known that the non-planar model of bypass is more profitable to suppress the development of intimal hyperplasia that tends to occur preferentially in regions of low time averaged shear stress and rapid temporal changes in wall shear stress. In this study it was numerically simulated the blood flow in an coronary artery grafted by artificial bypass to determine the flow characteristic variations due to the anastomosis angle changing. 5 different non-planar anastomosis angle models such as 45°, 60°, 90°, 120° and 135° were considered. When the anastomosis angle is higher, the backward flow region is spatially extended near the downstream region of the anastomosis because of the development of horseshoes vortex. For the case of the nan-planar 45° and 60° of anastomosis, the area of low-OSI zone was decreased by 26% and 13% respectively and the time averaged wall shear stress was increased by more than 55% as compared with 45° of planar model. However, both of the area of the low-OSI zone and the time averaged wall shear stress of 90°, 120° model were significantly increased.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.437-449
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• 2002

관상동맥은 체순환 동맥과 비교하여 매우 다른 유동조건을 갖는다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 관상동맥의 유동조건이 다른 혈관과 비교하여 동맥경화의 생성과 발전에 어떤 영향을 미치는지를 협착된 혈관 모델의 혈류역학적 전산유체해석을 통해 분석하였다. 연구 결과, 협착된 관상동맥 모델의 유동장과 벽면전단응력의 분포는 복부 대동맥 및 고동맥과 비교하여 큰 차이점을 보였다. 관상동맥은 혈관 지름이 혈류량에 비해 상대적으로 작으므로 큰 벽면전단응력값을 보이는 반면에, 혈관 협착부 목 후방부에 하나의 보텍스만 보이는 단순한 유동장 분포를 보였다. 한편, 복부대동맥과 고동맥 모델은 협착부 목 전반부와 후방부에 여러 개의 보텍스를 나타내는 복잡한 유동장을 형성하였다. 관상동맥 모델에서는 임피던스 페이즈앵글이 음의 큰 값을 가질 때에 벽면전단응력의 크기가 증가하고 재순환영역이 증가함이 관찰되었다. 그러므로 심장의 수축운동과 -110。에 이르는 관상동맥의 큰 음의 임피던스 페이즈앵글 값은 동맥경화를 촉진시키는 유동환경을 조성함을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제24권10호
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• pp.123-130
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• 2007

Hypoplastic left heart syndrome is currently the most lethal cardiac malformation of the newborn infant. Survival following a Norwood operation depends on the balance between systemic and pulmonary blood flow, which is highly dependent on the fluid dynamics through the interposition shunt between the two circulations. The purpose of this study is an optimization of the systemic-to-pulmonary artery shunt. In this study, We used computational fluid dynamic(CFD) models to determine the velocity profile in a systemic-to-pulmonary artery shunt and suggested a simplified method of calculating the blood flow in the shunt based on Ultrasound systems. We analyzed the flow characteristic variations and oscillatory shear index(OSI) due to the anastomosis angle and shunt diameter changing. Four different CFD models were constructed with the shunt sizes ranging from 3 to 3.5mm. The angle between the brachiocephalic trunk(BCT) and the shunt were $30^{\circ}$ and $45^{\circ}$, respectively. When the diameter is 3.0 mm, the oscillatory shear index decreased by 1.2% at $30^{\circ}$ as opposed to at $45^{\circ}$. When the diameter is 3.5 mm, it increased by 18% more at $30^{\circ}$ as opposed to at $45^{\circ}$. When the joint angle is $30^{\circ}$ and the diameter is 3.0 mm, the oscillatory shear index decreased by 4.1% in comparison with the 3.5 mm diameter. When the angle is $45^{\circ}$ and the diameter is 3.0 mm, the index increased by 14.6% in comparison with the 3.5 mm diameter.