| Literature DB >> 19014952 |
Robert J Whittaker1, Richard Booth, Rosemary Dyson, Clare Bailey, Louise Parsons Chini, Shailesh Naire, Sevil Payvandi, Zimei Rong, Hannah Woollard, Linda J Cummings, Sarah L Waters, Lina Mawasse, Julian B Chaudhuri, Marianne J Ellis, Vipin Michael, Nicola J Kuiper, Sarah Cartmell.
Abstract
We develop a simple mathematical model for forced flow of culture medium through a porous scaffold in a tissue-engineering bioreactor. Porous-walled hollow fibres penetrate the scaffold and act as additional sources of culture medium. The model, based on Darcy's law, is used to examine the nutrient and shear-stress distributions throughout the scaffold. We consider several configurations of fibres and inlet and outlet pipes. Compared with a numerical solution of the full Navier-Stokes equations within the complex scaffold geometry, the modelling approach is cheap, and does not require knowledge of the detailed microstructure of the particular scaffold being used. The potential of this approach is demonstrated through quantification of the effect the additional flow from the fibres has on the nutrient and shear-stress distribution.Mesh：
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Year: 2008 PMID： 19014952 DOI： 10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.10.013
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Theor Biol ISSN： 0022-5193 Impact factor: 2.691