Our long time partner, Capvidia, has been working closely with our Living Heart Project team and will be hosting a webinar on October 5th titled "2-way Strongly Coupled FSI Simulations of a Tubular Aortic Heart Valve using Abaqus & FlowVision"

Abstract: Prosthetic heart valves deployed in the left heart (aortic and mitral) are subjected to harsh hemodynamical conditions. Most of the tissue engineered heart valves have been developed for the low pressure pulmonary position because of the difficulties in fabricating a mechanically strong valve able to withstand the systemic circulation. This necessitates the use of reinforcing scaffolds resulting in a biomedical textile mesh reinforced tissue composite (TexValve). Therefore, to better design these implants material behaviour of the composite, valve kinematics and its hemodynamical response needs to be evaluated. Experimental assessment can be immensely time consuming and expensive, paving way for numerical studies.

In this work, results obtained using the multi-scale modelling approach to determine the behaviour of textile composite as proposed by Sodhani et al. 2016 was evaluated with an in-silico experiment for its accuracy. Results from the in-silico fluid structure interaction simulation was found to be in good coherence with the in vitro test results.

Learn more and register here: http://flowvisioncfd.com/abaqus-flowvision-aortic_valve