A simple computational model of the right coronary artery on the beating heart - Effects of the temporal change of curvature and torsion on the blood flow

Biorheology

Volumn 39, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 395-399

  Hayashi, Hiroyuki ^a   Yamaguchi, Takami ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asymmetry of contraction; Computational fluid dynamics; Moving boundary; Vortex formation; Wall shear stress

Indexed keywords

BLOOD FLOW; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HEART BEAT; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART DILATATION; HEMODYNAMICS; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SHEAR STRESS; TORSION;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CORONARY VESSELS; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036375508     PISSN: 0006355X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

1. Flow in a tube with non-uniform, time-dependent curvature: Governing equations and simple examples
2. Three-dimensional analysis of left ventricular ejection using computational fluid mechanics
3. The effects of cardiac infarction on realistic three-dimensional left ventricular blood ejection
4. Dynamic curvature strongly affects wall shear rates in a coronary artery bifurcation model