Feasibility of Computational Fluid Dynamics for Evaluating the Intraventricular Hemodynamics in Single Right Ventricle Based on Echocardiographic Images

Figure 1

The process of CFD 3D model reconstruction and simulation. The CFD modeling is based on real-time 3D echocardiography. A smith dynamic geometry was used to reconstruct the 3D ventricular geometry. The reconstructed model was smoothed by the “Smooth Mask” tool. The reconstructed ventricular geometry along with the boundary conditions were imported into the software (ANSYS®-FLUENT) for simulation. Finally, the visualization of the streamlines was completed by the ANSYS CFD-Post 14.5 software.