Pumping potential of a hyperbolic shell-of-revolution flexible-matrix-composite structure

Pumping potential of a two-layer left-ventricle-like flexible-matrix-composite structure

“…In our near-conical LVlike model, both in the experiments and ANSYS simulation, the base is fixed and the outer surface is assumed to be free. However, in the actual heart, various structures such as the basal skeleton, the apex [2], the pericardial sac (a conical sac of fibrous tissue surrounding the heart, which is radially stiff but circumferentially free [13]), and the atrial and ventricular valves constrain the myocardial motions [13,14]. 4.…”

“…investigated, both analytically and experimentally, the PP of two flexible-body structural pumps: a barrel-shaped FMC structure [1], and a hyperbolic FMC one [2]. Each is based on its own unique principal.…”

“…The Pumping Potential (PP) of a flexible-body pump may be defined as ''the relative volume reduction due to a relative input stroke'' [1,2]; that is,…”