The closure of the human aortic valve is primarily driven by a fluid feed-back system and trapped vortex during forward flow, requiring minimal reversed flow to seal.
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Hypothesis-generating for vortex-mediated aortic valve closure; human validation required before informing prosthetic design.
The closure mechanism of the human aortic valve is investigated experimentally with a rigid-walled model placed in a pulsatile water-tunnel. It is shown that the valve is controlled by a fluid feed-back system incorporating a stagnation point at the downstream end of each sinus and a trapped vortex within it, and that threequarters of the valve's closure is accomplished during forward flow, requiring only very little reversed flow to seal it. The experiments are complemented by solutions of the inviscid-flow equations, based on a Hill spherical vortex model.
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