Simulation of Branching Blood Flows on Parallel Computers

Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation

Volumn 40, Issue , 2004, Pages 325-330

  Yue, Xue ^a   Hwang, Feng Nan ^b   Shandas, Robin ^c   Cai, Xiao Chuan ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c University of Colorado Denver and Children s Hospital Colorado   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood flow modeling; Domain decomposition methods; Implicit methods; Incompressible Navier Stokes equations; Parallel computing

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS;

BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; BLOOD FLOW; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MATHEMATICS; NONLINEAR SYSTEM;

ARTERIES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; CORONARY VESSELS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 2342600213     PISSN: 00678856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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