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Structure of the jet from a generic catheter tip

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A generic feature of a wide variety of central venous catheters, which are typically located within the superior vena cava (SVC), is a jet from a side hole of the catheter tip. Particle image velocimetry is employed in conjunction with a scaled-up water facility, in order to characterize the structure of the jet as a function of dimensionless hole diameter and jet velocity ratio. Quantitative patterns in the radial and crossflow planes of the catheter-SVC system define the jet evolution. It has distinctive features, relative to the classical jet in a crossflow, which issues from a small opening in a planar surface into a region of large extent.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, 356 Packard Laboratory, Lehigh University, 19 Memorial Drive West, Bethlehem, PA, 18015, USA

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Foust, J., Rockwell, D. Structure of the jet from a generic catheter tip. Exp Fluids 41, 543–558 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00348-006-0180-3

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