Effects of natural convection within the anterior chamber on the ocular heat transfer. (English) Zbl 1208.92018
Summary: The aqueous humor inside the anterior chamber has been known to be in constant circulation. It is widely accepted that this flow is caused mainly by the thermal gradient inside the anterior chamber, which induces buoyancy. This generates natural convection inside the anterior chamber, which may affect the overall heat transfer inside the human eye. Nevertheless, most of the studies in the past that investigated the temperature distribution inside the human eye have not included this into their mathematical model. This study seeks to investigate the significance of natural convection inside the anterior chamber on the heat transfer inside the human eye. For this purpose, a two-dimensional model of the anterior chamber is developed using the boundary element method.
MSC:
| 92C35 | Physiological flow |
| 80A20 | Heat and mass transfer, heat flow (MSC2010) |
| 65N38 | Boundary element methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs |
| 93C30 | Control/observation systems governed by functional relations other than differential equations (such as hybrid and switching systems) |
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