Hydraulic design of a regenerative flow pump for an artificial heart pump

Abstract

The present study is focused on the design of a regenerative flow pump for artificial heart pump application and the experimental testing and results. It is based on the improved momentum exchange theory proposed by Yoo et al. [1]. Salient feature of the present design procedure is that it does not require any re-adjustment of the input data. Using the design procedure, a regenerative flow type blood pump has been designed and manufactured to confirm its validity.