Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10884/1496
Title: On the Tortuosity of TPMS Sca olds for Tissue Engineering
Authors: Guerreiro, R.
Pires, T.
Guedes, J. M.
Fernandes, P. R.
Castro, A. P. G.
Keywords: Tissue engineering
TPMS sca olds
Tortuosity
Computational fluid dynamics
Permeability
Homogenisation method
Issue Date: Apr-2020
Publisher: Symmetry
Citation: Guerreiro, R. et al. (2020). On the Tortuosity of TPMS Sca olds for Tissue Engineering. Symmetry, 12(4), 596
Abstract: Abstract: Recently, bone tissue engineering (TE) has seen new developments, with triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMSs) being used to develop new porosity-controlled sca olds to interface new tissue growth. The process of choosing the best geometry to a specific application still lacks research, so the goal for this work is to propose a new method of sca old selection, based on assessing the tortuosity inside these symmetric TPMS-based structures. Additionally, computer fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations were conducted to validate this method. The comparison between tortuosity and CFD outputs suggests that an analysis of the tortuosity could be used as an early indicator of the sca old’s viability for specific applications, favouring sca olds with more intricate and curvature-dependent streamlines.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10884/1496
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