The Enhancing Visual Acuity (EVA) System (Dutch Ophthalmic Research Centre International B.V.) features a unique fluid control system - VacuFlow Valve Timing Intelligence (VTi®) - and represents the next-generation evolution of pump machines. VacuFlow VTi® overcomes the limitations of existing Venturi and peristaltic pumps and provides the potential to enable safer, faster, and more precise tec...

OBJECTIVE To describe the spectrum of oxygen-delivery methods. DESIGN Clinical audit. SETTING Medical wards of a tertiary referral teaching hospital in August 2004. PARTICIPANTS 98 medical patients receiving supplemental oxygen. RESULTS Of the 98 patients, 40 were not receiving oxygen by customary methods. In classifying the patterns of oxygen delivery, we describe the transcephalic, su...

Arterial blood and expired gas samples were taken from 20 patients before operation and on the first day after upper abdominal surgery. After operation the patients were studied breathing air and also breathing 35% oxygen from a venturi-type mask. Preoperative Pao2 with age was exaggerated by operation. Pao2 after operation was closely related to, and lower than, the preoperative value. The pos...

Flowmetry. Fluid-flow measurement and visualisation ................................................................................ 1 Measuring mass flow-rate ......................................................................................................................... 2 Accumulative weighting .............................................................................................

G Venturi 1 , L Zammarchi 2 3 , C Fortuna 1 , ME Remoli 1 , E Benedetti 1 , C Fiorentini 1 , M Trotta 3 , C Rizzo 4 , A Mantella 2 , G Rezza 1 , A Bartoloni 2 3 1. Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immune-Mediate Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy 2. Clinica Malattie Infettive, Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale e Clinica, Università Degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, I...

Venturi tube is a microbubbles generator with simple and robust design. Air was injected into the liquid flow, transported through throat of break up as in diverging area. In high-speed liquid, cavitation occurred along air to tube. One factors that affected existence dissolved gas level liquid. Therefore, this study aims compare microbubble collapse phenomena under different further understand...

A transfer standard for flowmeter calibration provides traceability to a primary standard. It is typically used for most commercial calibrations because it represents an economically attractive alternative to a primary system. A set of critical flow venturi (CFV) transfer standards have been maintained in calibration at CEESI for the past 35 years. The uncertainty in mass flowrate has been esti...

A compressible, multiphase, one-fluid RANS solver has been developed to study turbulent cavitating flows. The interplay between turbulence and cavitation regarding the unsteadiness and structure of the flow is complex and not well understood. This constitutes a critical point to accurately simulate the dynamic behaviour of sheet cavities. In the present study, different formulations based on a ...

BLOOD flow in single vessels can be measured by direct methods such as rotameter, drop-flow meter, Rein-thermostromuhr, Venturi principle, electromagnetic flow meter and bubble-floAV meter. Such methods are usually characterized by great accuracy, but their applicability is considerably limited in man by the fact that the appropriate vessel must be made accessible. Blood flow in some regions wa...

The Inject Pipe Mixer (IPM) are being used as venturi injectors and can also homogenize two fluids. The entry of secondary fluid as a jet influences flow field in the device. A CFD simulation of flow through an IPM (Lshape) has been carried out using ANSYS CFX 11.0 using water as the flowing fluid to understand the flow field under turbulent flow conditions using standard k--ε model. The result...