Dynamic curvature strongly affects wall shear rates in a coronary artery bifurcation model

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1189-1196

  Weydahl, Erlend S ^a   Moore Jr , James E ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Curvature; Hemodynamics

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW PATTERNS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SHEAR DEFORMATION;

SHEAR RATES;

CARDIOLOGY;

ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; COMPUTER MODEL; CORONARY ARTERY; DYNAMICS; GEOMETRY; HEART CONTRACTION; HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR RATE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ARTERIES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; REFERENCE VALUES; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034887346     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9290(01)00051-3     Document Type: Article

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