The Centrifugal Blood Pump (CBP) produces a continuous flow. The CBP takes blod from the left ventricle and eject it into the aorta. The open loop network consists of: atrial reservoir (preload), left ventricle and systemic arterial tree composed of aortic, thoracic and abdominal tracts. R_AT, C_AT and L_AT are the resistance, compliance and inertance describing the behavior of the aortic tract. R_TT (R_ABT), C_AT (C_ABT) and L_AT (L_ABT) are the resistance, compliance and inertance describing the behavior of the thoracic (abdominal) tract. LAP is the left atrial pressure, LVP is the left ventricular pressure. MV is the mitral valve and AV is the aortic valve. MV and AV are modelled using resistances and diodes. Ras is the systemic arterial peripheral (variable) resistance. Qli (Qlo) is the input (output) ventricular flow. The behavior of the native ventricle is implemented as reported in "Numerical Hart Model (1)" section.

The equations reported in the slide modelling the behaviour of the rotary blood pump implemented as LVAD (left ventricular assist device) in CARDIOSIM^© software simulator. k₁, k₂ and k₃ are constants that assume different values for different rotational speed of the pump. The LVAD tackes blood from the left ventricle (i.e. LVP is left ventricular pressure) and ejects it into aorta (i.e. AoP is the aortic pressure). Q_pump is the pump flow.