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A 4th-order accurate, low dissipative flow solver is used to perform Large-Eddy Simulations of three typical hemodynamic situations: the flow through the idealized medical device proposed by the American Food and Drug Administration; the intracardiac flow within an actual human left heart whose morphology and deformations are deduced from medical imaging; the flow downstream of an artificial aortic valve which arises from the blood-leaflets interaction problem. In all the cases, the \({\varvec{\sigma }}\) subgrid scale model designed to handle wall-bounded transitional flows is successfully used and the numerical simulations compare favourably with the experimental data available. These results illustrate the potential of the Large-Eddy Simulation methodology to properly handle blood flows. They also support the idea that turbulence, even if not fully developed, may be present in cardiovascular flows, including under non pathological conditions.
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The authors thank ANR and BPI for their supports through the Laboratory of Excellence NUMEV (ANR-10-LABX-20), the FORCE (ANR-11-JS09-0011) and the DAT@DIAG (ISI-I1112018W) project. Dr S. Sonntag and PhD student D. Pott from the Helmholtz Institute of Aachen are gratefully acknowledged for providing the details of their experimental test rig about the aortic valve dynamics. CC also thanks CNRS for funding his thesis. Dr. V. Moureau is gratefully acknowledged for giving access to the YALES2 solver. This work was performed using HPC resources from GENCI-CINES (Grants 2014-, 2015- and 2016-c2015037194) and the HPC@LR Center.
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Nicoud, F., Chnafa, C., Siguenza, J., Zmijanovic, V., Mendez, S. (2018). Large-Eddy Simulation of Turbulence in Cardiovascular Flows. In: Wriggers, P., Lenarz, T. (eds) Biomedical Technology. Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, vol 84. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59548-1_9
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