Giulia Aliberti
Creation of high-fidelity CAD model of hemodialysis filters by applying “reverse engineering” approach and CFD simulation of devices performance.
Rel. Giuseppe De Nisco, Umberto Morbiducci. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Biomedica, 2024
Abstract
Kidney diseases, consisting in a total or partial loss of renal function for the patients, are rapidly increasing over the years. Nowadays, the most common treatment to replace kidney’s functionality is hemodialysis, which filter waste, salts and fluid from patient’s blood by an extracorporeal machine. The core element of the hemodialysis machine is the dialyzer: a filter in which a porous film (i.e., a bundle of fibers) separates blood from the dialysate fluid (with which blood exchanges solutes and toxins). The dialysate flows outside the bundle of fibers while the blood flows inside the fibers. Because the efficacy of hemodialysis therapy depends on the fluid dynamic inside the dialyzer, several computational models were proposed to study the hollow fiber membrane-based hemodialysis process, but only a few used a 3D approach, and none of them reproduced high-fidelity geometry of the filter.
In this scenario, the aim of this study was (1) to create high-fidelity CAD models of two clinically used dialyzers (i.e., SOLACEA 21H - Nipro, and CorDiax FX100 - Fresenius Medical Care) by applying a “reverse engineering” approach and (2) to characterize the hemodynamics inside their caps under several working conditions by using computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
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