Document Type : Full Research Paper
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1 Ph.D. student, Biological Fluid Mechanics Research Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic)
2 M.Sc. student, Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology
3 Assistant professor, Department of Life Science Engineering, Faculty of New Sciences & Technologies, University of Tehran
4 Associate professor and Head of Biological Fluid Mechanics Research Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic)
Abstract
Peristaltic flow is one of the important mechanisms of fluid transmission. In addition to the divers engineering applications, this mechanism plays an important role in biological organs such as digestion system and urine excretion. In this paper, urine bolus transportation in ureter has been investigated experimentally using a peristaltic flow simulator apparatus. Some of the features of this apparatus worth mentioning are its ability to use it to investigate the influence of some important parameters in peristaltic flow, such as the effect of pressure difference between the kidney and the bladder on the quantity of discharge and reflux rates, effect of the mean velocity of bolus transport on discharge rate, existence of fluid film and its effect on bolus discharge rate, and effect of fluid bolus length on reflux rate. Then we compare the obtained results with the similar theoretical studies. It was observed that an increase in the pressure difference between inlet and outlet decreases the ratio of reflux to initial volume of the bolus, and it increases the discharge rate. Moreover, the quantities of reflux and discharge rate decrease by decreasing the bolus transport velocity. It was also observed that the thickness of the fluid film has an inverse relation with respect to the discharge rate and with increasing the bolus length reflux is increasing.
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