Expanded polytetrafluoroethylene conduits with curved and handsewn bileaflet designs for right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction.

Objective: This study reviewed the application of curved and bileaflet designs to pulmonary expanded polytetrafluoroethylene conduits with diameters of 10 to 16 mm and characterized this conduit on in vitro experiment, including particle image velocimetry.

Methods: All patients who received this conduit between 2010 and 2022 were evaluated. Three 16-mm conduits were tested in a circulatory simulator at different cardiac outputs (1.

Estimation of High-Speed Liquid-Jet Velocity Using a Pyro Jet Injector.

The high-speed liquid-jet velocity achieved using an injector strongly depends on the piston motion, physical property of the liquid, and container shape of the injector. Herein, we investigate the liquid ejection mechanism and a technique for estimating the ejection velocity of a high-speed liquid jet using a pyro jet injector (PJI). We apply a two-dimensional numerical simulation with an axisymmetric approximation using the commercial software ANSYS/FLUENT.

Effect of Schmidt number on mass transfer across a sheared gas-liquid interface in a wind-driven turbulence.

The mass transfer across a sheared gas-liquid interface strongly depends on the Schmidt number. Here we investigate the relationship between mass transfer coefficient on the liquid side, k, and Schmidt number, Sc, in the wide range of 0.7 ≤ Sc ≤ 1000.