Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Volume 31, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.2717
Keywords
blood flow; respiratory flow; one-dimensional model; lumped parameter model; loss coefficient; bifurcation
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In reduced-order (0D/1D) blood or respiratory flow models, pressure losses at junctions are usually neglected. However, these may become important where velocities are high and significant flow redirection occurs. Current methods for estimating losses rely on relatively complex empirical equations that are only valid for specific junction geometries and flow regimes. In pulsatile multi-directional flows, switching between empirical equations upon reversing flow may introduce unrealistic discontinuities in simulated haemodynamic waveforms. Drawing from work by Bassett et al. (SAE Trans 112:565-583, 2003), we therefore developed a unified method (Unified0D) for estimating loss coefficients that can be applied to any junction (i.e. any number of branches at any angle) and any flow regime. Discontinuities in simulated waveforms were avoided by extending Bassett et al.'s control volume-based method to incorporate a pseudodatum' supplier branch, an imaginary effective vessel containing all inflow to the junction. Energy exchange between diverging flow streams was also accounted for empirically. The formulation was validated using high resolution computational fluid dynamics in a wide range flow conditions and junction configurations. In a pulsatile 1D simulation exhibiting transitions between four different flow regimes, the new formulation produced smooth transitions in calculated pressure losses. Copyright (c) 2015John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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