A new pseudo-spectral methodology without numerical diffusion for conducting dye simulations and particle residence time calculations

12/10/2021
by   Faisal Amlani, et al.
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Dye experimentation is a widely used method in experimental fluid mechanics for flow analysis or for the study of the transport of particles within a fluid. This technique is particularly useful in biomedical diagnostic applications ranging from hemodynamic analysis of cardiovascular systems to ocular circulation. However, simulating dyes governed by convection-diffusion partial differential equations (PDEs) can also be a useful post-processing analysis approach for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications. Such simulations can be used to identify the relative significance of different spatial subregions in particular time intervals of interest in an unsteady flow field. Additionally, dye evolution is closely related to non-discrete particle residence time (PRT) calculations that are governed by similar PDEs. PRT is a widely used metric for various fluid dynamics applications (e.g., environmental fluids, biological flows) and is a well-accepted biomarker for cardiovascular diseases since it is linked to thrombus formation. This contribution introduces a pseudo-spectral method based on Fourier continuation (FC) for conducting dye simulations and non-discrete particle residence time calculations without numerical diffusion errors. Convergence and error analyses are performed with both manufactured and analytical solutions. The methodology is applied to three distinct physical/physiological cases: 1) flow over a two-dimensional (2D) cavity; 2) pulsatile flow in a simplified partially-grafted aortic dissection model; and 3) non-Newtonian blood flow in a Fontan graft. Although velocity data is provided in this work by numerical simulation, the proposed approach can also be applied to velocity data collected through experimental techniques such as from particle image velocimetry.

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