Three-dimensional filling flow into a model left ventricle

A numerical study of the three-dimensional fluid dynamics inside a model left ventricle during diastole is presented. The ventricle is modelled as a portion of a prolate spheroid with a moving wall, whose dynamics is externally forced to agree with a simplified waveform of the entering flow. The flow equations are written in the meridian body-fitted system of coordinates, and expanded in the azimuthal direction using the Fourier representation. The harmonics of the dependent variables are normalized in such a way that they automatically satisfy the high-order regularity conditions of the solution at the singular axis of the system of coordinates. The resulting equations are solved numerically using a mixed spectral–finite differences technique. The flow dynamics is analysed by varying the governing parameters, in order to understand the main fluid phenomena in an expanding ventricle, and to obtain some insight into the physiological pattern commonly detected. The flow is characterized by a well-defined structure of vorticity that is found to be the same for all values of the parameters, until, at low values of the Strouhal number, the flow develops weak turbulence.

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