Arterial gas emboli are potentially fatal vasculature blockages caused by bubbles. To analyze arterial bubble behavior, a bench top vasculature model was filled with a gravity-fed, 60% glycerol-water solution which closely simulates the flow characteristics of human blood. By injecting air into the model through three different sizes of tubing, three distinct bubble sizes were generated and analyzed. It was determined that low Reynolds numbers accompanied by increasing bubble radius, reduced bubble velocity and low Bond numbers increased bubble buoyancy.

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Creator

• Iyer, Nandakumar R
• Tremblay, Richard J
• Albergaria , Nikolas Nunes

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-031010-154824

Advisor

• Savilonis, Brian James

Year

• 2010

Date created

• 2010-03-10

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright