Key result
Applying the Windkessel model in blood flow simulators optimizes pressure to evaluate cardiovascular dynamics.
The use of Windkessel models in blood flow simulators may improve the understanding of the dynamic behavior of the cardiovascular system beyond time-domain analysis.
May refine simulator-based cardiovascular dynamics research; leaves open clinical validation of optimized pressure outputs.
A blood flow simulator is one of the experimental devices used to better understand the cardiovascular system. Time-Domain analysis is not sufficient to understand the cardiovascular system because of the effects related to pulsating flows. Even when the mean pressure and mean flow rate of the blood flow simulators are satisfied, the dynamic properties can differ from the desired performance. In this paper, the Windkessel model, a well-known mathematical model of the cardiovascular system, was employed to obtain optimized pressure using initial values. The Windkessel parameters, including flow resistance, R, are expected to lead to a better understanding of the dynamic behavior of cardiovascular systems.
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Chun et al. (2016) studied this question. Blood flow simulator based on Windkessel models was evaluated. The Windkessel model was employed in a blood flow simulator to obtain optimized pressure and better understand the dynamic behavior of cardiovascular systems.
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