Computational fluid mechanical analysis of a chest drain device with circular side holes

Author

Chung, Juhyun ; Li, John K -J

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Rutgers Univ., NJ, USA

fYear

2003

Firstpage

215

Lastpage

216

Abstract

To overcome the complications due to the use of noncompliant large diameter conventional chest drain devices, a flexible small diameter chest drain device was designed and simulated based on computational fluid dynamic techniques. Results showed that the pressure drop and velocity increase of the most distal drainage holes, which are located near the suction end, are dominant over other drainage holes. When all holes are opened the chest drain showed 6% increase in flow rate.

Keywords

biological fluid dynamics; biomedical equipment; computational fluid dynamics; haemodynamics; patient care; physiological models; accumulated fluid removal; chest drain device; circular side holes; computational fluid mechanical analysis; flexible small diameter chest drain device; flow rate; hemodynamic aspects; most distal drainage holes; noncompliant large diameter conventional chest drain devices; normal transthoracic pressure; post-operative care; pressure drop; suction end; velocity increase; Biomedical computing; Biomedical engineering; Blood; Computational fluid dynamics; Computational modeling; Design engineering; Fluid dynamics; Heart; Hemodynamics; Ischemic pain;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioengineering Conference, 2003 IEEE 29th Annual, Proceedings of

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7767-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NEBC.2003.1216070

Filename

1216070